History of Restoration of Ancient Stone Sculptures

by Janet Burnett Grossman; Jerry Podany; Marion True

• ISBN13: 9780892367238
• ISBN10: 0892367237
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Summary

The nineteen papers in this volume stem from a symposium that brought together academics, archaeologists, museum curators, conservators, and a practicing marble sculptor to discuss varying approaches to restoration of ancient stone sculptures. Contributors and their subjects include Marion True and Jerry Podany on changing approaches to conservation; Seymour Howard on restoration and the antique model; Nancy H. Ramage's case study on the relationship between a restorer, Vincenzo Pacetti, and his patron, Luciano Bonaparte; Mette Moltesen on de-restoring and re-restoring in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek; Miranda Marvin on the! Ludovisi collection; and Andreas Scholl on the history of restoration of ancient sculptures in the Altes Museum in Berlin. Charles Rhyne summarizes the themes, approaches, issues, and questions raised by the symposium.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Marion True
Changing Approaches to Conservation	1	(12)
Marion True
Lessons from the Past	13	(12)
Jerry Podany
Restoration and the Antique Model Reciprocities between Figure and Field	25	(20)
Seymour Howard
Ein Apoxyomenos des 5. Jahrhunderts Uberlegungen zu einer von Cavaceppi erganzten Statue in Los Angeles	45	(16)
Sascha Kansteiner
From the Need for Completion to the Cult of the Fragment How Tastes, Scholarship, and Museum Curators' Choices Changed Our View of Ancient Sculpture	61	(14)
Orietta Rossi Pinelli
The Creative Reuse of Antiquity	75	(12)
Peter Rockwell
Restoration and Display of Classical Sculpture in English Country Houses A Case of Dependence	87	(18)
Jane Fejfer
The Role of the Collector Henry Blundell of Ince	105	(10)
Edmund Southworth
Piecing as Paragone Carlo Albacini's Diana at Ince	115	(12)
Elizabeth Bartman
The Investigation of Two Male Sculptures from the Ince Blundell Collection	127	(10)
Samantha Sportun
Vincenzo Pacetti and Luciano Bonaparte The Restorer and His Patron	137	(12)
Nancy H. Ramage
``Secure for Eternity'' Assembly Techniques for Large Statuary in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century	149	(30)
Brigitte Bourgeois
Plates
Reconstructive Restorations of Roman Sculptures Three Case Studies	179	(12)
Giovanna Martellotti
Restoration Techniques and Sources for the Statues of the Giustiniani Collection	191	(16)
Angela Gallottini
De-restoring and Re-restoring Fifty Years of Restoration Work in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek	207	(18)
Mette Moltesen
Possessions of Princes The Ludovisi Collection	225	(14)
Miranda Marvin
The Ancient Sculptures in the Rotunda of the Altes Museum, Berlin Their Appreciation, Presentation, and Restoration from 1830 to 2000	239	(10)
Andreas Scholl
Restoring Restored Sculptures The Statues of Zeus and Asklepios in the Rotunda of the Altes Museum, Berlin	249	(6)
Wolfgang Maßmann
Early Restorations of Ancient Sculptures in the Casa de Pilatos, Seville Sources and Evidence	255	(10)
Markus Trunk
Themes, Approaches, Issues, and Questions	265	(6)
Charles Rhyne
Index	271