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Restoration of wall paintings, Ephesus. The conservation and restoration of frescoes is the process of caring for and maintaining frescos, and includes documentation, examination, research, and treatment to insure their long-term viability, when desired.
The first phase of the excavations at Pompeii started in 1748, which led to the first conservation and restoration efforts of the frescoes since their burial, [2] and in 1764, open-air excavations began at Pompeii. [1] Pompeii has a long history of excavation and restoration that began without a strong foundation or strategy. [3]
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In the last decades of the 20th century, the conservation and restoration treatment of two Renaissance masterpieces of wall painting, Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City and Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper (1495–98) in Milan, drew the world’s attention to the environmental and structural vulnerabilities of ...
The Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Plants, ceiling fresco by Michelangelo, pre-restoration A post-restoration section of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel that includes the fresco shown above. The conservation-restoration of the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel was one of the most significant conservation-restorations of the 20th century.
Frescoes had fluctuating concentrations of both types of blue which eventually made the frescoes distinct in composition compared to their seemingly equal restoration pieces. This detail however, demonstrates the importance of conservation practices that come with the analysis of the ancient colors.
The term art conservation denotes the maintenance and preservation of works of art and their protection from future damage and deterioration. Art restoration, by contrast, denotes the repair or renovation of artworks that have already sustained injury or decay and the attempted restoration of such objects to something approaching their original undamaged appearance.
Conservation Methodology, Problems, and Results The Frescoes of Michelangelo on the Vault of the Sistine Chapel: Original Technique and Conservation Conservation of Central Asian Wall Painting Fragments from the Stein Collection in the British Museum Destruction and Restoration of Campanian Mural Paintings in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
