To treat or not to treat - that is the question: Structural treatment of canvas paintings in a Danish perspective

Mikkel  Scharff

To treat or not to treat - that is the question: Structural treatment of canvas paintings in a Danish perspective

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Abstract

The paper discusses the situation in Denmark up to and after the Greenwich conference on lining of canvas paintings, the many considerations and reflexions during the following 15-20 years, and how the period was filled up with curiosity, eagerness to try out new ways and ideas, testing methods and materials, contemplating failures, building new and glorious equipment - and longing for a better understanding of treatments and the structural behaviour of the paintings. In the 1990s the focus gradually changed, with more limited interventions, change in techniques and material use, less new development of treatment methods and materials, but a focus towards better understanding canvas painting structural behaviour and its consequences, by increasing scientific study of the subject.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conserving Canvas
Editors	Cynthia Schwartz, Ian McClure, Jim Coddington
Number of pages	16
Publisher	The Getty Conservation Institute
Publication date	2023
ISBN (Print)	978-1-60606-824-3
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	Conserving Canvas Symposium - Yale University, New Haven, United States Duration: 14 Oct 2019 → 17 Oct 2019 http://www.cvent.com/events/conserving-canvas-symposium/event-summary-f6e6285779154700acb000934e204055.aspx

Conference

Conference	Conserving Canvas Symposium
Location	Yale University
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Haven
Period	14/10/2019 → 17/10/2019
Internet address	http://www.cvent.com/events/conserving-canvas-symposium/event-summary-f6e6285779154700acb000934e204055.aspx

Artistic research

No

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https://www.getty.edu/publications/conserving-canvas/

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