#Art Restoration

[dozydawn]

felt like compiling some b roll of this guy working on paintings, some interesting expressions.

[thunderous-aesthetics]

An art restoration stimboard for @trupowieszcz .

Sources:

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[facts-i-just-made-up]

In the early 1500s, the church ordered several portraits by Jan van Eyck altered to make the subjects’ skin appear more flawless. One large mole was removed from the Arnolfini Portrait entirely. Only now that restoration has achieved its current technological status are efforts under way to replenish the Flemish blemish.

[cuprohastes]

Art restoration

An art restorer seeing accurate technique in a movie:

And then when the character immediately lights up a cigarette next to all the solvents and the painting.

From Baumgartner Restorations - Which is a lovely channel and follows actual professional art restoration (vs. Amateur or enthusiast restoration).

[local-seraph]

>:o

[idkjustlemmedrownlikerab]

I just finished reading Winterlude by the lovely @otrtbs and might I just say it healed something in me which Art heist baby! broke, I also kinda get why its the fav child (Like I didn't even see the mcd tag in ahb! but I knew Regulus was gonna die coz it ties the whole story together, personally I don't feel like the point would've driven home if he stayed alive and I love how Nat wrote the story so that Reg is actually satisfied by the time he dies, coz he got his brother back, fell in love, was loved back and was immortal for a while, not the way he ever imagined but still)

This is not to say that I didn't sob uncontrollably during the Copenhagen chapter and pretty much every one after that, I even have a pink sticky note in my room to remind me of the misery I suffered.

Anyways back to winterlude it was soo cute, being a Regulus kin I completely understood how he felt, being overshadowed by Sirius, always feeling like he is not in on a joke the whole world knows about, wanting and hoping for his mother to reach out when he knows its never gonna happen but whatever he does he can't extinguish that little flame of hope.

I absolutely loved Regulus' internal monologue sm tho how its always sassy and snarky and he just can't hold it in around James coz he just makes him feel that comfortable. I missed all the other characters a lot since we only see Sirius as a main character along with James and Regulus ofc while some of the other made an appearance. I did miss Barty and Evan tho but the amazing writing made up for it.

Loved the fact that the author basically geeked about art restoration the whole time as a person who is obsessed with art history and art crime for the longest time, restoration is not something I had explored much but this makes me want to.

Also Ruby and Ziggy??? Honestly I get Regulus, I would too run out wearing the most ridiculous outfit to get a glimpse of James Potter riding a motorcycle.

And I really appreciated the innuendos they made the whole time in the studio, all in all it was a very nice read and is being added to my comfort reads right there with just lovers.

Thank you for coming to my rant y'all

[merelygifted]

See the Portrait That Made Henry VIII Fall in Love With Anne of Cleves, Newly Restored to Its Former Glory | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

[stimboardboy]

LUKE

Everyone we set out with just... gone. I could've done more. And that ain't up for debate. I know it in my bones, and I gotta live with it.

x - x - x | x - x | x - x - x

[charlesreeza]

The vault of the church of San Benedetto in Catania, Sicily, was frescoed by Giovanni Tuccari between 1726 and 1729. The paintings depict the Life of Saint Benedict and six Allegories surrounding the Triumph of Saint Benedict. During the 19th century, most of the frescoes of the vault were covered with white plaster to make the interiors of the church more sober and in line with the taste of the time.  During World War II, in 1943, a bomb hit the church creating a gash in the ceiling that broke the plaster that covered the vault for over a century. 

Today we are again able to see the church as it was conceived in the eighteenth century thanks to the restoration work carried out by the architect Armando Dillon who began the restoration of the frescoes in 1948.

Photos by Charles Reeza

[hhmart]

Introduction

Historic House Museums

What is a historic house museum?

Historic house museums, or HHMs, are historic structures whose primary function has been to house people that now falls under the umbrella of "museum." People have many different definitions of "museum," "house," and "historic," however, and depending on who is asked, answers vary to the question "is [insert property] an HHM?"

This study follows the United States and the United Kingdom, for the US's museum culture stems from the UK (and wider European) museum structure. What could either group learn from the other? How can we continue to care for these buildings while serving the communities they are a part of? How do you ratify a structure's potentially painful history with the present? These are all questions we asked for this project as well as throughout learning about the ethics of museums and its application(s) to HHMs.

A Brief History of HHMs

For the purposes of this project, HHMs begin in the United States in 1853 with the creation of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. These women sought to save George Washington's Mount Vernon plantation in Virginia, and thus purchased the property with the intention of turning it into a museum to glorify Washington, an American hero, and reinforce American patriotism - a trendy stance in the 19th century. In the UK, the National Trust's establishment in 1895 marks their beginning of protecting historic structures. It is also important to note that in the United Kingdom, the National Trust's establishment was heavily intertwined with anti-industrialization sentiment, while in the United States preservation often comes with more explicit political strings attached (though to be clear, nothing is apolitical when it comes to museums).

The MVLA and the National Trust differed in goal and philosophy. The National Trust now owns more than 500 properties, many of which are HHMs; the UK has thousands of years of built history with evidence on every street corner, so the necessity for preservation of these structures is much more prevalent. The US, on the other hand, tends toward a breakneck sprint towards progress, often not looking back; historic structures often become asphalt for highways in the United States and can only be saved through laborious personal effort (see Jane Jacobs' unrelenting efforts to thwart Robert Moses' planned destruction of Greenwich Village, NYC in the 1950s). All this said, the US and UK's histories of HHMs start in different places.

Historically, the houses themselves were not considered pieces of art owned by a museum. The items held within the houses, however, were - the presumption was that "museum" infrastructure would serve an HHM just as well as it would a traditional art museum. Though this has changed in the past fifteen years and the structures themselves are now considered acquisitioned pieces of their respective museum organizers, approaches to HHMs require creative thinking and community building skills often not ascribed to the field of "museum professional." Still, scholarship on the ethics of museums and curation works tirelessly to correct these historic assumptions and make HHMs and other museum spaces places to build communities and learn about each other.

Art in (historic house) museums

"Art" can apply to many elements of an HHM - an architect might say that the house itself is the art while an art historian might explore the relationship between the house's owner, the art, and the house, noting the changes in styles of art and artists on display. A traditional western oil painter might appreciate the house and its well-appointed rooms but only pay close attention to the owner's impressive art collection. All of these theoretical perspectives are valid and, though merely narrow examples, all correct at once.

This project aims to disentangle art from the house. Of course, the nature of a historic home and a collection tied to its historic owner(s) means that that relationship cannot be fully disentangled. Still, not every HHM has a collection amassed by a single wealthy family over centuries of absolute power. We seek to understand the full applications of art/house relationships and explore its potential (and sometimes its tangibility) through two case studies of wildly different HHMs: Wiley House in the United States and Burghley House in the United Kingdom.

[niteshade925]

Restoring an old Chinese ink painting with boiling water(!) and the subsequent zhuangbiao (装裱; a Chinese framing method) process

[ferdifz]

Today I Learned that the Ecce Homo of Borja, Spain (originally painted in the 1930's by Elías García Martínez), was eventually restored to a much more "presentable" form, after the "infamous" restoration attempt in 2012.

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From CrashCourse Art-History (Sept. 2024; 10-minutes):

The English Wikipedia article on the Ecce Homo is also quite brief, effective & to-the-point, way I read it..:

Ecce Homo (García Martínez and Giménez) - Wikipedia

[archangelgabriellives]

The Look In Your Eyes

Rated: G

Word count: 4306

Warnings/tags: Alternate Universe, the Winchesters do not hunt, they know nothing, museums, art restoration, demons

Author's note: Hello again! I'm happy to announce that after years of being too scared to try or backing out from fear, I have finally finished a fic for the @spnsabrielbang! I never thought I'd be able to do it. This was a fic I had in my wip folder for so long. I loved the concept. Not sure how I got to the resolution I did tho XD I'd like to thanks @i-love-you-but-in-spanish (here) and @sagee-stuffs (here) for their beautiful artworks to go with this fic! I love them so much. Well no matter where it came from I hope you like it <3

Summary: A strange new painting finds its way to the Singer Art Museum, and Sam Winchester feels a strange connection to it. Who is the man in the painting with the golden eyes, and who else knows that its been found?

Read it here on ao3!

[local-seraph]

Sent 2 emails and read about 20 pages of a book for my master's and I look like Olga Boznanska in her last self-portrait