The ninth triennial meeting of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics (ICCM), organized by the Getty Conservation Institute and the Institut National du Patrimoine (INP) of ...

Pre-requisites: For teachers with any level of proficiency in teaching with works of art, and students of all skill levels. This curriculum is intended to provide students and teachers with the tools ...

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder were the two most famous painters in Antwerp. They were also close friends and frequent collaborators, who ...

This extraordinary collection of rare books and prints on gastronomy from the 15th through the 20th centuries offers unique insight into the visual culture of food. The elaborate art of culinary ...

The Villa dei Papiri was a sumptuous private residence on the Bay of Naples, just outside the Roman town of Herculaneum. Deeply buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, it was rediscovered ...

A conservation plan for the Giancarlo de Carlo buildings at the Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo in Italy.

When Cassas visited Palmyra in 1785, and Vignes nearly 80 years later, they experienced an ancient site that still stirred emotions more than a dozen centuries after its downfall. Positioned at a ...

The theft and illicit trade of cultural artifacts is a major international crime, second only to drug trade, and totaling $4-6 billion each year (according to the Museum Security Network). A vast ...

Travel to Palmyra by Europeans began with the historic 1691 expedition undertaken by British merchants based in Aleppo who, upon hearing stories about this vast ruin, made the dangerous journey across ...

Ancient Iran, historically known as Persia, was the dominant nation of western Asia for over twelve centuries, with three successive native dynasties—the Achaemenid, the Parthian, and the ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti is recognized as one of the most creative and influential artists in the history of Western art. His most celebrated creations have become icons of world culture: the ...

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