Restoration as Fabrication of Origins
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About this book
The aim of this publication is to clarify the relationships between material restoration and politics in Italian Renaissance art. The focus of this research is on the question of origin as a foothold for political, patrimonial, and cultural identity. These claims were enacted within a system which, rather than restoring the initial forms and meanings of existing objects, remodeled the past according to new identity requirements: spaces were reorganized, and works of art invested with new meanings. Their material and aesthetic reality was thus transformed and redefined. The aim is therefore to analyze the potential physical modifications of these artefacts in light of their symbolic recoding.
With contributions by Kathleen W. Christian, Caroline S. Hillard, Mateusz Kapustka, Jérémie Koering, Victor Lopes, Florian Métral, Arnold Nesselrath, Neville Rowley, Beat Wyss.
- Restoration practices in Italian Renaissance art
- Reassessing the concept of Renaissance
- Recoding of ancient works for political purposes
Author / Editor information
Henri de Riedmatten, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Professor at the Department of Art History, University of Geneva, since 2018 leading the SNSF research project "Restoration as Fabrication of Origins: A Material and Political History of Italian Renaissance Art". His current research is devoted to issues of iconoclasm and restoration in Renaissance Italy
Fabio Gaffo, PhD candidate in the SNSF research project "Restoration as Fabrication of Origins: A Material and Political History of Italian Renaissance Art," University of Geneva, Switzerland
Mathilde Jaccard, PhD candidate in the SNSF research project "Restoration as Fabrication of Origins: A Material and Political History of Italian Renaissance Art," University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS / TABLE DES MATIÈRES
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FOREWORD
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AVANT-PROPOS
11 - ON THE NOTION OF RESTORATION / DE LA NOTION DE RESTAURATION
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TRANSLATIO AND RESTAURATIO
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THE REASON OF DISTANCE
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EX UNO LAPIDE
61 - OF SPACES AND PLACES. D’ESPACES ET DE LIEUX
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RAFFAELE MAFFEI AND THE DISCOVERY OF AN ETRUSCAN TOMB IN 1508
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Une poétique de l’archaïque
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TEMPS MÊLÉS
119 - RECENT RESTORATION PRACTICES PRATIQUES RÉCENTES DE LA RESTAURATION
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TRANSPARENCE OU OPACITÉ
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LA MISE AU TOMBEAU DE VÉRONÈSE
157 - A COLONIAL RENAISSANCE? UNE RENAISSANCE COLONIALE ?
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NOVA ATLANTIS
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Acknowledgments / Remerciements
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CREDITS
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