Introduction to Conservation and Restoration I I
Code
10106
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Conservação e Restauro
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
Agnés Anne Françoise Le Gac Arinto, Maria da Conceição Lopes Casanova
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Português
Subject matter
1. Principle concepts
1.1 Cultural Heritage and Scientific Heritage definitions. Conservation, remedial conservation, preservative conservation, and restoration concepts.
1.2 Notions of authenticity and ''cultural significance''.
1.3. Professional ethics and restrictions of the restoration activity: reversibility and re-treatability concepts.
2. Evolution and conservation philosophies
2.1 The restoration history and the origins of the conservation as a science.
2.2 Major restoration theories: from John Ruskin to Cesari Brandi.
2.3 New paradigms: from Salvador Muñoz Viñas to Frank Hassard.
3. Training & professional status
3.1 The role of international organizations in training and professional status of the conservator-restorer.
3.2 Principal normative documents for the profession.
3.3 Relationship between the conservator/restorer and other professions: the interdisciplinary team.
Bibliography
Boito, C., I nostri vecchi monumenti. Conservare o restaurare? Nueva antologia, nº87, 1886.
Brandi, C., Teoria del restauro. Roma: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura, 1963.
Hassard, F., “Towards a New Vision of Restoration ....”Journal of Institute of Conservation 32, no. 2 (Sept. 2009): 149-150.
Muñoz-Viñas, S., Contemporary Theory of Conservation. Oxford: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005.
Riegl, A. Le culte moderne des monuments... . Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1984.
Ruskin, J. “Lamp of Memory.” Chap. 6 in Seven Lamps... British Authors 3951. Leipzig: B. T., 1907.
Viollet-le-Duc, E-E. “Restoration.” In The Foundations ... Dictionnaire Raisonné, translated by Kenneth D. W., 193-228. NY: George Braziller, 1990.