Exhibiting Conservation 1980's

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1989

Institution: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
Title: The Uses of Photography in Art Conservation and Research
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Institution: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery (Swansea, Wales)
Title: Rococo Revival
Topic/Brief Description: Conservation of three 18th Century portraits
Dates: March 18 - June 3, 1989

Institution: Museo Del Cenedese (Vittorio Veneto, Italy)
Title: Jacopo Sansovino a Vittorio Veneto: Il Rivielo in Cartapesta della Madonna col Bambino
Topic/Brief Description: Restored paper mache relief
Dates: November - December 1989

Institution: Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte (Naples)
Title: Polittico di San Severino: Restauri e Recuperi
Topic/Brief Description: Recently restored polyptych of Saint Severinus
Dates: December 18, 1989 - March 4, 1990

Institution: Museo Nazionale di Castel Saint Angelo (Rome)
Title: Restauri in Castello: Il Complesso Monumentale, 1982 - 1989
Topic/Brief Description: Chiefly architectural elements and interiors
Dates: December 1989

Institution: Museo Nazionale di Castel Saint Angelo (Rome)
Title: Fragmenta Picta, Affreschi e Mosaici Stattaci del Medioevo Romano
Topic/Brief Description: Visual reconstruction of frescoes in their original settings
Dates: December 15, 1989 - February 18, 1990

Institution: Museum für Volkskunde Pergamonnmuseum (Berlin)
Title: Exhibit in the making, marketing and maintenance of clothing in Germany from 1889 - 1989
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: October 1989 - September 1992

Institution: National Gallery (London)
Title: Art in the Making: Italian Painting Before 1400
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: November 29, 1989 - February 28, 1990

Institution: Palazzo Pitti (Florence)
Title: Le Tre Età dell'Uomo della Galleria Palatina
Topic/Brief Description: Recently restored paintings by Giorgione
Dates: December 1989

Institution: Regensburg Domkapitelhaus (Regensburg)
Title: Dom zu Regensburg: Ausgrabung, Restaurierung, Forschung
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: July 14 - October 29, 1989

Institution: Rotonde de la Villette (Paris)
Title: 20 Ans de Protection des Monuments Historiques en Ile-de-France
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: November 8 - December 3, 1989

Institution: Royal Academy of Arts (London)
Title: Conservation Today
Topic/Brief Description: Traces attitudes towards architectural conservation since 1975
Dates: summer 1989

Institution: Saint Lorenzo, Padula (Campania, Italy)
Title: Vallo Ritrovato, Scoperte e Restarui nel Vallo di Diano
Topic/Brief Description: Recently restored paintings and sculptures from Teggiano and the Vallo di Diano
Dates: July 22 - September 30, 1989

Institution: Villa Grimani Morosini (Martellago, Italy)
Title: Lattanzio Querena a Venezia e nel suo Entroterra: Il Restauro dell Pale de'Altare delle Chiese Parrochiali di Martellago e di Maerne
Topic/Brief Description: Two restored paintings by Lattanzio Querena, AATA 30-1198
Dates: October 15 - 22, 1989

Institution: ???? (Prague)
Title: Restoration Art 1948 - 1988
Topic/Brief Description: Restoration work done in Prague between 1948 and 1988: polychromes, National Theater, sculpture and applied art
Dates: April - June 1989

1988

Institution: Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Title: 'Mark Rothko's Harvard Murals
Topic/Brief Description: Six restored, but permanently discolored paintings; test panels
Dates: August 6 - October 2, 1988

Institution: British Museum (London)
Title: Here Today-Here Tomorrow: Conservation in the British Museum
Topic/Brief Description: Academic treatment of conservation based on the activities of the conservation department
Dates: November 1988 - January 1989

Institution: Dahlem Museum (Berlin)
Title: Archaologie + Chimie
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: October 19, 1987 - January 18, 1988

Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, England)
Title: The First Ten Years of the Hamilton Kerr Institute: The Examination of Paintings 1977 - 1988
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: January 12 - March 20, 1988

Institution: Gallerie dell'Accademia (Venice)
Title: Paolo Veronese Restauri
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: June 1 - September 30, 1988

Institution: ???
Title: Methodes de Conservation des Biens Culturels - Une Exposition Itinérante
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: Aarau, September 1988; Bern October - November 1988; Zurich, December 1988 - January 1989; Bâle, February - March 1989

Institution: National Gallery of Art (London)
Title: Art in the Making: Rembrandt
Topic/Brief Description: Radiographs and photomicrographs of 18 paintings
Dates: November 1988 - January 1989

Institution: Palazzo Vecchio (Florence)
Title: Donatello e il Restauro della Guiditta
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: May 15 - October 31, 1988

Institution: San Leolino (Panzano, Italy)
Title: La Pieve di San Leolino e Panzano: Restauro e Restituzione di Dipinti Recuperati (The CHurch of San Leolino at Panzano: Restoration and Restitution of the Recovered Paintings
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: May 1988

Institution: Villa Medici (Rome)
Title: Restauro a Villa Medici
Topic/Brief Description: Works of various media owned by the Académie de France and kept at the Villa
Dates: November 16 - December 8, 1988

1987

Institution: Ashmolean Museum (Oxford)
Title: Forgery and its Detection
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Dates:

Institution: Museo del Castelvecchio (Verona)
Title: Propeste e Restauri: Il Musei d'Arte Regli Anni Ottanta (Proposals and Restorations: Art Museums in the 1800's
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: fall 1987 - 1988 (shown at S. Francesco al Corso, Verona, 1988)

Institution: Palazzo Barberini (Rome)
Title: Praga, The Forme Della Cità: Restauro e Riuso Degli Edifici e dei Centri Storici (Prague, The Form of the City: Restoration and Reuse of the Buildings of the Historic Center
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Dates: October 27 - November 29, 1987

Institution: Uffizi Gallery (Florence)
Title: La Nascita di Venere e l'Annunciazione del Botticelli Restaurate
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: spring 1987

Institution: ??? (Madrid)
Title: Conservación y Restauración: El Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla y León
Topic/Brief Description: Conservation activities of the consejeria de educación y culture of Castille and León
Dates:

1986

Institution: Accademia (Venice)
Title: Venice Restored
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: through December 31, 1986

Institution: Doges Palace (Venice)
Title: Twenty Years of Restoration in Venice
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: through December 31, 1986

Institution: Galleria Nazionala dell'Umbria (Perugia)
Title: Arte Sacre in Umbria e depinit Restaurati nei Secoli XIII-XX
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: October 25, 1986 - January 15, 1987

Institution: Museo Regionale (Messina)
Title: Opere d'Arte Restaurate 1980 - 1985
Topic/Brief Description: 15th - 19th century painting, 15th - 16th century sculpture
Dates: March 12 - May 31, 1986

Institution: Palazzo Casali (Cortona, Italy)
Title: Il Polittico di Lorenzo di Niccolò della Chiesa di San Domenico in Cortona: Dopi Il Restauro
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: October 11 - November 9, 1986

Institution: Palazzo Rocco (Ciavari, Italy)
Title: Dipinti Restaurati a Palazzo Rocco
Topic/Brief Description: AATA 29-640
Dates: October 4 - 19, 1986

Institution: Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan)
Title: The Polyptych of Andrea di Bartolo at the Brera Restored
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: April 23 - June 15, 1986

Institution: Portsmouth City Museums (Portsmouth, England)
Title: Stop the Rot
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: through April 30, 1986

Institution: UNESCO Building (Paris)
Title: The Acropolis at Athens. Conservation, Restoration and Research 1975 - 1983: An Exhibition
Topic/Brief Description: Catalogue Published by the Ministry of Culture and Science Committee for the Preservation of the Acropolis Monuments, Athens 1983
Dates: beginning February, 1986 (Previously at Athens, Moscow, London and Amsterdam)

Institution: Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels)
Title: Watteau: Technique Picturale et Problèmes de Restauration
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: November 22 - December 12, 1986

Institution: Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore)
Title: Artful Deception: The Craft of the Forger
Topic/Brief Description: Curatorial suspicions and scientific testing
Dates: through January 10, 1987

1985

Institution: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington DC)
Title: Conservation of Modern Art
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: through March 31, 1985

Institution: Museo Bandini (Fiesole)
Title: 4 Restauri per un Itinerario d'Art a Fiesole
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: July through November, 1985

Institution: Museo Civico (Riva del Garda, Italy)
Title: Beni Cultura a Riva del Garda: Dipinti Restaurati, Chiesa dell'Inviolata
Topic/Brief Description: 11 paintings restored 1980 - 1984
Dates: November 23, 1985 - February 23, 1986

Institution: Palazzo Barbareni (Rome)
Title: Restoration Laboratory
Topic/Brief Description: Current restorations by the Sopritendenza per i beni artistici e storici, 26 works
Dates: December 14, 1985 - February 28, 1986

Institution: Palazzo dei Diamante (Ferarra)
Title: S. George and the Princess, by Cosinè Tura: Restored Paintings of the School of Ferrara
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: May 11 - July 15, 1985

Institution: Palazzo Vecchio (Florence)
Title: The Tapestries of the Sala dei Duecento - Studi per il Restauro
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: April 20 - June 30, 1985

Institution: Passmore Edwards Museum (London)
Title: Conserving our Heritage
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: 1985 - 1986

Institution: Saint Giovanni di Pré(Genoa)
Title: Un Pittore Genovese del Seicento
Topic/Brief Description: Recently restored paintings and drawings
Dates: January 25 - March 3, 1985

Institution: Vecchio Palazzo Comunale (Figline Valdarno)
Title: Masterpieces at Figline: Five Years of Restoration
Topic/Brief Description: Six paintings
Dates: December 7, 1985 - February 2, 1986

Institution: Note* A British Museum (London)
Title: Conserving our Heritage
Topic/Brief Description: Organized by the National Heritage Memorial Fund
Dates: through February 26, 1989

1984

Institution: Diözesan Museum (Graz)
Title: Bedrohte Kunst retten - Kirchliche Denkmalpflege
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: 1984

Institution: Galleria Regionale della Sicilia (Palermo)
Title: Momenti del Cinquecento Meridionale: Restauri e Recuperi (Examples of 16th Century Art in Southern Italy: Restorations and Recoveries)
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: 1984 - 1985

Institution: Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek (Vienna)
Title: Text-Noten-Bilder-Neuerwerbungen, Restaurierungen, Konservierungen
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates:1984

Institution: Statens Museum for Kunst (Copenhagen)
Title: Restaurieringsbilleder: en Udstilling om Bevaring og Undersogelse af Aeldre Kunst: Malerie (Pictures of Restoration: An Exhibition on the Conservation and Examination of Older Art: Painting)
Topic/Brief Description: Methods of examination, case studies of 28 conserved and restored paintings
Dates: September 1 - November 18, 1984

Institution: Uffizi Gallery (Florence)
Title: Il Tondo Doni di Michelangelo e il suo Restauro
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: 1984

1983

Institution: Clarendon Gallery Ltd. (London)
Title: Bartolomeo Cavaceppi: 18th Century Restorations of Ancient Marble Sculpture from English Collections
Topic/Brief Description: 22 restored sculptures
Dates: 1983

Institution: National Gallery of Art (London?)
Title: Leonardo's Last Supper: Before and After
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: 1983

Institution: Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena (Siena)
Title: Mostra di Opere d'Arte Restaurate nelle Province di Siena e Grosetto III - 1983
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: July - October 1983

Institution: ??? (Milan)
Title: Historical Evidence and Restoration Methodology: Italian Silk Textiles, 1450 - 1530
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: March 9 - May 15, 1983

1982

Institution: Albertina (Vienna)
Title: Mit Nadel und Säure
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: 1982

Institution: Braccio di Carlo Magno, Vatican (Rome)
Title: Restauri in Vaticano
Topic/Brief Description: Italian paintings, 15th-18th century sculptures, 17th century textiles
Dates: March 8 - May 31, 1982

Institution: Commenda di Pré (Geneva)
Title: Genva Picta - Proposte per la Scoperta e il Recupero delle Facciate Dipinte
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: April 15 - July 15, 1982

Institution: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica (Rome)
Title: Un Antologia di Restauri - 50 Opere d'Arte Restaurate dal 1974 al 1981
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: 1982

Institution: Instituto Centrale per la Patologia del Libro (Rome)
Title: Il Libro, Arte - Technologia - Conservazione
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: 1982

Institution: Musée Rath (Geneva)
Title: Sauver, L'art, Conserver, Analyser, Restaurer
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: 1982

Institution: The Museums at Stony Brook (Stony Brook, New York)
Title: Dirty Linen: The Care and Preservation of Textiles and Costumes
Topic/Brief Description: Uses a case study of a 1980 furnace malfunction at the Museums as a focal point to examine the problems of caring for costumes and textiles
Dates: May 19 - November 7, 1982

Institution: Palazzo Vecchio (Florence)
Title: Metodo e Scienza - Operativita e Ricerca nel Restuaro
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: 1982

1981

Institution: Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande (Bologna)
Title: La Terra Promessa: Chiesa, Città, Campagna; Il Patrimonio Artistico e Storico della Chiesa e l'Organizzazione del Territorio
Topic/Brief Description: The Promised Land: Church, City, Countryside; The Artistic and Historical Patrimony of the Church and the Organization of the Region. (Churches of Bologna, Ferrara, Forli and Ravenna; the problems of cataloguing and conserving their architecture and contents.)
Dates: June - July, 1981

Institution: Pratt Library (Baltimore, MD)
Title: Conservation Exhibition
Topic/Brief Description: Work done by individual conservators for the Peabody department of the library
Dates: November 1981 - February 1982

1980

Institution: Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (Paris)
Title: La Vie Mysterieuse des Chefs - d'Oeuvre: La Science au Service de l'Art
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: 1980

Institution: Staaliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin)
Title: Restaurierte Kunstewerke in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik
Topic/Brief Description:
Dates: 1980