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A conservation technician examining an artwork under a microscope at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The conservation and restoration of books, manuscripts, documents, and ephemera is an activity dedicated to extending the life of items of historical and personal value made primarily from paper, parchment, and leather.
The conservation and restoration of parchment constitutes the care and treatment of parchment materials which have cultural and historical significance. Typically undertaken by professional book and document conservators , this process can include preventive measures which protect against future deterioration as well as specific treatments to ...
The Collection of German Prints (German: Sammlung Deutscher Drucke) or SDD is the virtual German national library. Founded in 1989 by an association of six German libraries it covers the entire German-language literature. Each library is responsible for a specified period of time: 1450–1600: Bavarian State Library (Munich)
This is a list of German painters This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
[51] [52] Nevertheless, the collection does contain a number of significant, high value items including, among others, a Claude Monet painting "valued at $12 million", [53] a Matisse painting ("$20 million"), [53] a major Cézanne 1897 painting La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, as well as Liebermann's Two Riders on the Beach which subsequently ...
This list of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger contains a selection of the artist's best-known paintings, as well as a few copies and derivatives of his art, some of which relate to lost works. [1] Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497–1543) was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style.
Self-Portrait (Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle) 1493 d+c [9] Oil on parchment transferred to canvas [10] 56.5 × 44.5: Paris, Musée du Louvre : 10 Jesus Child as Redeemer: 1493 dm [11] Bodycolor and gold on parchment: 11.8 × 9.3: Vienna, Albertina 11 Lion: 1494 dm [12] Bodycolor, watercolor on parchment: 12.6 × 17.2: Hamburg ...
At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the Bremen Art Museum (German: Kunsthalle Bremen) was closed and its priceless paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture were stored in the basement. Bremen, an important manufacturing center, became an early target for Allied strategic bombing. On the night of 5 September 1942, a fire bomb destroyed ...