Caring for your Paintings
Is your contemporary painting more temporary than you think? Is the title to an early 1960s art-conservation guide that has always amused the
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The Great Art Robbery
The siege of Jerusalem bas-relief in the Rome, Arch of Titus Andrea Mantegna 1486 – 1505 The Triumph of Caesar, Royal Collection Hampton
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Restoring Old Masters
The dark arts and sciences of restoration are midwives nowadays always present during the preservation of paintings in personal private and public collections.
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(Art)Transportable Wealth
Taking it with you You may have an old oil painting or a family portrait in your home that has cheerfully hung there
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A (Short) History of Naughty Pictures
A (Short) History of Naughty Pictures Fragments of naughty art survive as red-Attic vase paintings from classic-era Greece, Tarquinian Etruscan tombs and Pompeian
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Don’t throw that Old Master out just yet
YOUR OLD OIL PAINTING MAY BE MORE VALUABLE THAN YOU THINK. Select newer better images and captions! Lavinia Fontana 1552 – 1614 Portrait
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