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Description: Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
BOOKFacture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Daphne Barbour (Editor), E. Melanie Gifford (Editor)
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00196
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19970
With this volume, the National Gallery of Art introduces a journal presenting the latest conservation research on works in its collection. Named for “the manner in which things are made,” Facture addresses aspects of conservation from treatment and technical art history to scientific research.

The inaugural volume focuses on great works of the Renaissance, studying sculpture, painting, and drawing from various points of view. With the publication of this biennial journal, the National Gallery maintains a tradition of fostering dialogue among art historians, scientists, and conservators working in the international museum community.


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Author
Daphne Barbour (Editor), E. Melanie Gifford (Editor)
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
Print publication date October 2013 (in print)
Print ISBN 9780300197426
EISBN 9780300256987
Copyright© 2013 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Illustrations 190
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List of illustrations

  • Page from Libro de' Disegni, recto
  • Page from Libro de' Disegni, verso
  • Page from Libro de' Disegni, recto
  • Page from Libro de' Disegni, recto in gray scale
  • An Angel Carrying a Torch, detail
  • An Angel Carrying a Torch, IRR image (1100-1400 nm), detail
  • Various Figure Studies
  • Head of a Youth Wearing a Cap; a Right Forearm with the Hand Clutching a Stone; and a Left Hand Holding a Drapery
  • Head of a Youth Wearing a Cap; a Right Forearm with the Hand Clutching a Stone; and a Left Hand Holding a Drapery, IRR image (1100-1400 nm), detail
  • Head of a Youth Wearing a Cap; a Right Forearm with the Hand Clutching a Stone; and a Left Hand Holding a Drapery, detail
  • Standing Nude Youth
  • Man with a Stick
  • Standing Nude Youth, detail, transmitted IR image (1100–1400 nm)
  • Standing Nude Youth, detail, transmitted IR image (1100–1400 nm)
  • Man with a Stick, detail, transmitted IR image (1100–1400 nm)
  • Saint Roch between Saints Anthony Abbot and Catherine of Alexandria
  • Saint Roch between Saints Anthony Abbot and Catherine of Alexandria, detail from top center and Vasari's mount above it
  • Saint Roch between Saints Anthony Abbot and Catherine of Alexandria, detail from top center with Vasari's mount in dark gray and the Raffaellino drawing in light gray
  • Saint Roch between Saints Anthony Abbot and Catherine of Alexandria, detail of St. Catherine
  • Standing Woman with Her Hands Clasped in Prayer
  • Two Draped Women Standing on Either Side of a Herm
  • Standing Woman with Her Hands Clasped in Prayer, detail
  • Standing Woman with Her Hands Clasped in Prayer, photomicrograph
  • Two Draped Women Standing on Either Side of a Herm, IRR image (1100–1400 nm)
  • An Angel Carrying a Torch; Dancing Putto Holding a Drapery; Two Angels Carrying Torches
  • An Angel Carrying a Torch, showing pricking holes for transfer
  • An Angel Carrying a Torch, photomicrograph
  • An Angel Carrying a Torch, photomicrograph
  • Dancing Putto Holding a Drapery, transmitted IR image (1100–1400 nm)
  • Lorenzo de' Medici
  • Lorenzo de' Medici
  • Lorenzo de' Medici, il Magnifico, 1449–1492 (The Pazzi Conspiracy Medal), obverse
  • Lorenzo de'Medici, il Magnifico, 1449–1492, obverse
  • Lorenzo de' Medici
  • Confirmation of the Rule of the Franciscan Order, detail
  • Lorenzo de' Medici
  • Death Mask of Lorenzo de' Medici
  • Death Mask of Lorenzo de' Medici
  • A Member of the Capponi Family
  • Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici (Pope Leo X, reigned 1513–1521)
  • Beato Sorore, fragment
  • Beato Sorore, fragment
  • Lorenzo de' Medici
  • Lorenzo de' Medici
  • Lorenzo de' Medici, x-radiograph
  • Lorenzo de' Medici, reverse
  • Cross section of the purple overgown from Lorenzo de' Medici
  • Cross section of the red becchetto from Lorenzo de' Medici
  • Cross section of the white camicia from Lorenzo de' Medici
  • Lorenzo de' Medici, interior of head
  • Lorenzo de' Medici, interior of bust
  • Lorenzo de' Medici, detail
  • Lorenzo de' Medici, virtual reconstruction
  • Duveen Brothers invoice
  • Duveen Brothers invoice
  • Duveen Brothers invoice
  • Duveen Brothers invoice
  • The Adoration of the Magi
  • The Adoration of the Magi, verso
  • The Visitation with Saint Nicholas and Saint Anthony Abbot, lantern slide
  • Duveen Brothers Paris Stock Book
  • Sir Joseph Duveen and his family on board ship
  • Duveen Brothers shipping statement
  • The Madonna of Humility
  • The Virgin Reading, lantern slide
  • Giovanni Emo, lantern slide
  • Saint Paul and a Group of Worshippers
  • Madonna and Child, lantern slide
  • Duveen Brothers invoice
  • Duveen Brothers scrapbook of Italian Frames
  • Lunette from one of two frames made for Niccolini-Cowper Madonna
  • Madonna and Child with Saints
  • The Triumph of Christ, also known as the Mazarin Tapestry
  • The Triumph of Christ, also known as the Mazarin Tapestry, detail
  • Christ with Music-Making and Singing Angels, detail
  • Coronation of the Virgin
  • The Mazarin Tapestry, detail of an angel
  • The Mazarin Tapestry, detail of the hood of a papal cope
  • The Mazarin Tapestry, detail of Xerxes and Esther
  • The Mazarin Tapestry, detail of men
  • Graph showing red yarns from the Mazarin Tapestry plotted by color values
  • FORS Spectra Red Sites, plots of the Mazarin Tapestry
  • The Triumph of Christ (The Mazarin Tapestry), showing locations of samples and analyses
  • The Mazarin Tapestry, metal yarns from Esther's gown
  • The Mazarin Tapestry, metal yarns from Esther's gown
  • The Mazarin Tapestry, metal yarns from Esther's gown, SEM image
  • The Mazarin Tapestry, metal yarns from Esther's gown, SEM image
  • The Mazarin Tapestry, SEM mage
  • The Mazarin Tapestry, EDX spectrum
  • The Mazarin Tapestry, SEM image
  • The Mazarin Tapestry, EDX spectrum
  • The Mazarin Tapestry, SEM image
  • The Mazarin Tapestry, EDX spectrum
  • The Mazarin Tapestry, FORS spectra of wool
  • The Mazarin Tapestry, detail of trio of pages
  • The Mazarin Tapestry, detail of trio of pages
  • Madonna and Child
  • Madonna and Child (Madonna mit dem Pardelfell)
  • Madonna and Child
  • Madonna and Child, schematic drawing
  • Madonna and Child
  • Madonna and Child
  • Madonna and Child, X-radiograph composite
  • Madonna and Child, detail
  • Madonna and Child, schematic of proposed mold sections
  • Madonna and Child, photomicrograph of paint cross section from red drapery
  • Madonna and Child, photomicrograph of paint cross section from flesh tone
  • Madonna and Child
  • Madonna and Child
  • Madonna and Child
  • Madonna and Child, X-radiograph detail
  • Schematic of proposed mold sections, Vittorio Veneto Madonna and Child
  • Schematic of proposed mold sections, Bargello Madonna and Child
  • The Annunciation
  • The Annunciation, multispectral infrared reflectogram (MS-IRR)
  • The Annunciation, multispectral infrared reflectogram (MS-IRR), detail
  • The Annunciation, multispectral infrared reflectogram (MS-IRR), detail
  • The Annunciation, multispectral infrared reflectogram (MS-IRR), detail
  • The Annunciation, multispectral infrared reflectogram (MS-IRR)
  • The Annunciation, detail
  • The Annunciation, macrophotograph
  • The Annunciation, multispectral infrared reflectogram (MS-IRR), detail
  • The Annunciation, macrophotograph of triforium columns
  • The Annunciation, macrophotograph of triforium columns
  • The Annunciation, macrophotograph of the dove and mordant-gilded rays
  • The Annunciation, detail
  • The Annunciation, macrophotograph
  • The Annunciation, macrophotograph
  • The Annunciation, detail
  • The Annunciation, macrophotograph
  • The Annunciation, macrophotograph
  • The Annunciation, macrophotograph
  • The Annunciation, detail
  • The Annunciation, macrophotograph
  • The Annunciation, detail
  • The Annunciation, macrophotograph
  • The Annunciation
  • The Annunciation, paint cross sections
  • The Annunciation, paint cross sections
  • The Annunciation, paint cross sections
  • The Annunciation, paint cross sections
  • The Annunciation, paint cross sections
  • The Annunciation, paint cross sections
  • The Annunciation, paint cross sections
  • The Annunciation, paint cross sections
  • The Annunciation, paint cross sections
  • The Annunciation, paint cross sections
  • The Annunciation, paint cross sections
  • The Annunciation, before conservation treatment
  • The Annunciation
  • The Annunciation, detail
  • The Annunciation, detail
  • The Annunciation, after cleaning, before restoration
  • The Annunciation, photomicrograph
  • The Annunciation, detail
  • The Annunciation, photomicrograph
  • The Annunciation, detail
  • The Annunciation, infrared reflectogram, detail
  • The Annunciation, detail
  • Neptune on a Sea Monster
  • Neptune on a Sea Monster, X-radiograph
  • Neptune on a Sea Monster
  • Frick Neptune, gamma radiograph
  • Queen Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus, detail of gamma radiograph
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune on a Sea Monster, detail
  • Neptune on a Sea Monster, detail
  • Sea Monster, detail
  • Neptune on a Sea Monster, detail
  • Neptune on a Sea Monster, detail
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune as a Sea Monster, reconstruction of Severo's casting technique
  • Neptune on a Sea Monster, detail
  • Neptune on a Sea Monster, X-radiograph detail
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Contents
Daphne Barbour (Editor), E. Melanie Gifford (Editor)
Description: Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Contents
Author
Daphne Barbour (Editor), E. Melanie Gifford (Editor)
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
Copyright© 2013 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19971
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Preface
Mervin Richard
Description: Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
The National Gallery of Art celebrates its permanent collection in the new conservation division journal, Facture. This publication will present essays that focus on conservation treatment, scientific research, and technical art history ...
Author
Mervin Richard
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
Copyright© 2013 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Acknowledgments
Daphne Barbour (Editor), E. Melanie Gifford (Editor)
Description: Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Acknowedgments
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Daphne Barbour (Editor), E. Melanie Gifford (Editor)
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
Copyright© 2013 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Essays
Daphne Barbour (Editor), E. Melanie Gifford (Editor)
Description: Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Essays
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Daphne Barbour (Editor), E. Melanie Gifford (Editor)
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
Copyright© 2013 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19974
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A Page from Giorgio Vasari’s Libro de’ Disegni as Composite Object
Kimberly Schenck and Barbara H. Berrie and John K. Delaney
Description: Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574), architect, painter, and connoisseur, is best known for his august work, Le vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori (Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors and architects), chronicling the development of Italian art in the Renaissance ...
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Kimberly Schenck and Barbara H. Berrie and John K. Delaney
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
Copyright© 2013 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Related print edition pages: pp.2-31
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00196.001
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Chapter subject tags:Conservation and restorationVasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574Drawing, Renaissance--ItalyLippi, Filippo, approximately 1406-1469Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510

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A Renaissance of Color: The Conservation of Lorenzo the Magnificent
Michael Belman and Alison Luchs and Shelley Sturman
Description: Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
The Washington bust of Lorenzo de’ Medici (1449–1492) (figs. 1, 5), depicting the private citizen who dominated Florence in the late fifteenth century, was a remarkably influential work ...
Author
Michael Belman and Alison Luchs and Shelley Sturman
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
Copyright© 2013 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Related print edition pages: pp.32-57
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00196.002
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Chapter subject tags:Medici, Lorenzo de', 1449-1492Sculpture, Renaissance--ItalyConservation and restorationPainting, Renaissance--ItalyFlorence (Italy)--HistorySculpture, Renaissance--Italy--FlorencePainting, Renaissance--Italy--Florence

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Italian Renaissance Paintings Restored in Paris by Duveen Brothers, Inc., c. 1927–1929
Elizabeth Walmsley
Description: Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
More than 1,700 paintings, sculptures, medals, plaquettes, and decorative arts now at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, including some 155 Italian Renaissance paintings ...
Author
Elizabeth Walmsley
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
Copyright© 2013 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Related print edition pages: pp.58-77
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00196.003
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Chapter subject tags:Duveen BrothersPicture frames and framingPainting, Renaissance--ItalyConservation and restorationArt, Renaissance--ItalyArt dealers

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Technical Study of The Triumph of Christ (The Mazarin Tapestry)
Julia M. Burke and Lisha Deming Glinsman and John K. Delaney
Description: Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
The Triumph of Christ (fig. 1) is a premier example of a courtly commission and is considered one of the finest surviving tapestries from the late fifteenth century ...
Author
Julia M. Burke and Lisha Deming Glinsman and John K. Delaney
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
Copyright© 2013 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Related print edition pages: pp.78-103
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00196.004
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Chapter subject tags:Tapestry, Renaissance--NetherlandsConservation and restorationCloth of goldArt patronage--NetherlandsAelst, Pieter van, approximately 1450-approximately 1531Painting, Flemish--15th century

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One of Many: A Cartapesta Relief of Jacopo Sansovino
Judy L. Ozone
Description: Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
In the last decades of his long and prolific career, Jacopo Sansovino (1486–1570, born Jacopo de’ Tatti) produced a series of large Madonna and Child reliefs in his substantial and highly specialized Venice workshop ...
Author
Judy L. Ozone
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
Copyright© 2013 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Related print edition pages: pp.104-127
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00196.005
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Chapter subject tags:Sansovino, Iacopo, 1486-1570Sculpture, Renaissance--italyConservation and restorationPapier-mâché sculptureSculpture, Renaissance--Italy

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Jan van Eyck’s Washington Annunciation: Painting Materials and Techniques
E. Melanie Gifford and Catherine A. Metzger and John K. Delaney
Description: Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Jan van Eyck (c. 1390–1441) evoked an utterly convincing sense of reality in a richly symbolic world ...
Author
E. Melanie Gifford and Catherine A. Metzger and John K. Delaney
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
Copyright© 2013 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Related print edition pages: pp.128-153
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00196.006
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19980
Chapter subject tags:Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440Conservation and restorationAltarpieces, RenaissanceAltarpieces, NetherlandishPainting, Netherlandish--15th century

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In Focus
Daphne Barbour (Editor), E. Melanie Gifford (Editor)
Description: Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
In Focus
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Daphne Barbour (Editor), E. Melanie Gifford (Editor)
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
Copyright© 2013 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19981
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The Cleaning and Restoration of Jan van Eyck’s Washington Annunciation
David Bull
Description: Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
​The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck hangs in the galleries of the National Gallery of Art beside great works by Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling, Dirk Bouts, and Petrus Christus ...
Author
David Bull
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
Copyright© 2013 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Related print edition pages: pp.156-166
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00196.007
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19982
Chapter subject tags:Conservation and restorationPainting, Netherlandish--15th centuryAltarpieces, NetherlandishPainting, RenaissanceEyck, Jan van, 1390-1440

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Reconstructing the Casting Technique of Severo da Ravenna’s Neptune
Dylan Smith
Description: Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
In the latter half of the fifteenth century one of the characteristic art forms of the Renaissance emerged in northern Italy — the bronze statuette ...
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Dylan Smith
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
Copyright© 2013 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Related print edition pages: pp.167-181
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00196.008
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Chapter subject tags:Sculpture--TechniqueSevero, da Ravenna, active 1500-1525Sculpture, Renaissance--ItalyConservation and restoration

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Daphne Barbour (Editor), E. Melanie Gifford (Editor)
Description: Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks
Photography Credits
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Daphne Barbour (Editor), E. Melanie Gifford (Editor)
PublisherNational Gallery of Art
Copyright© 2013 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19984
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