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Conservation-restoration is the practice of cleaning and discovering the original state of an object, investigating the proper treatments and applying those treatments to restore the object to its original state without permanently altering the object, and then preserving the object to prevent further deterioration for generations to come (Caple, p. 5-6). [1]
The painting was damaged in a flood at the London Tate Gallery in 1928, [3] which required extensive restoration work which was funded by the Newfoundland Dog Club of America. [4] Following the restoration work which was coordinated by Ron Pemberton, the painting went on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 2002 to 2005. [ 5 ]
Stained glass conservation refers to the protection and preservation of historic stained glass for present and future generations. It involves any and all actions devoted to the prevention, mitigation , or reversal of the processes of deterioration that affect such glassworks and subsequently inhibit individuals' ability to access and ...
Els Salomon-Prins Bendheim (7 July 1923 – 12 January 2023, 23 Tammuz 5683 – 20 Tevet 5783) was a Dutch-born Orthodox Jewish philanthropist, theologian, author and photographer. In 2002, Bendheim was awarded the Yakir Yerushalayim (Worthy Citizen of Jerusalem) prize for her contributions to the development of Jewish institutions in Jerusalem.
Bendheim Center for Finance (BCF) is an interdisciplinary center at Princeton University. It was established in 1997 at the initiative of Ben Bernanke . Yacine Ait-Sahalia served as the Center's inaugural director (1998-2014).
The physical origin of the non-Arrhenius behavior of fragile glass formers is an area of active investigation in glass physics. Advances over the last decade have linked this phenomenon with the presence of locally heterogeneous dynamics in fragile glass formers; i.e. the presence of distinct (if transient) slow and fast regions within the material.
A dog exiting through a pet door. A pet door or pet flap (also referred to in more specific terms, such as cat flap, cat door, kitty door, dog flap, dog door, or doggy/doggie door) is a small opening to allow pets to enter and exit a building on their own without needing a human to open the door. Originally simple holes, the modern form is a ...
Restoration is a 1995 historical drama film directed by Michael Hoffman from a screenplay by Rupert Walters, based on the 1989 novel of the same title by Rose Tremain. It stars Robert Downey Jr. as a 17th-century medical student exploited by King Charles II. The film was shot in Wales [4] and won the Academy Awards for art direction and costume ...