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Conserving and Restoring the Hereford Screen
British Art Studies, 2017 In this film, the Victoria and Albert Museum's Head of Metalwork Conservation, Diana Heath, describes her involvement in the intricate conservation and restoration of the Hereford Screen over a number of years. From her first encounter with the screen in
Diana Heath
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Heritage, 2022 Four nineteenth-century casts of the decoration on the north side of the exterior of the apse of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris are held in the plaster casts collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Valentina Risdonne +3 more
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Collaborations Between Scott and Skidmore
British Art Studies, 2017 This essay examines the collaboration between architect and designer George Gilbert Scott and metalworker Francis Skidmore. It compares their metalwork screens at the cathedrals of Hereford, Lichfield, and Salisbury—projects which sometimes overlapped ...
Alicia Robinson
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“A triumph of art” or “blatant vulgarity”: The Reception of Scott and Skidmore’s Screens
British Art Studies, 2017 This essay provides a broad narrative of how the screens designed by architect and designer George Gilbert Scott and made by metalworker Francis Skidmore for the cathedrals of Hereford, Lichfield, and Salisbury, have been regarded since they were ...
Alicia Robinson
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Ruskin and South Kensington: contrasting approaches to art education [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2020 Alongside his hugely influential art criticism, and his own art practice, Ruskin made occasional interventions in the teaching of art. This paper considers his contribution to art education in relation to that of ‘South Kensington’, the government ...
Anthony Burton
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Liturgy and Music in Hereford Cathedral in the Time of Queen Victoria and Beyond
British Art Studies, 2017 The Victorian Gothic Revival and its focus on liturgical neo-medievalism inspired the 1860s restoration of the medieval Hereford Cathedral. In this restoration, the new screen played a central part.
Tessa Murdoch
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Virtual Deinstallation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of life and how work is accomplished. Travel restrictions and health concerns have hindered courier trips, making virtual condition reports and deinstallations necessary to retrieve loans.
Jennifer K. Herrmann, Dong Eun Kim
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Mopa Mopa and Barniz de Pasto at the Victoria and Albert Museum: Recent Developments
HeritageThis paper summarises the research carried out so far on barniz de Pasto objects from the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and outlines future areas of development for our collection of Indigenous lacquer from Latin America.
Lucia Burgio +4 more
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Reseña: East Asian Lacquer: Material Culture, Science and Conservation
Ge-conservación, 2012 East Asian Lacquer: Material Culture, Science and Conservation. Shayne Rivers, Rupert Faulkner, Boris Pretzel (eds.) Archetype Publications.London November 2011.240 páginas, 297 x 210 mm.ISBN: 9781904982609.
Emma Garcia Alonso
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Protocol for the Analysis of Cross-Sections from Gilded Surfaces
Heritage, 2021 This paper describes the protocol currently used at the Victoria and Albert Museum for the scientific analysis of water, oil and lacquer gilding in cultural heritage objects.
Lucia Burgio, Thomas Gregory
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