All manner of murals : the history, techniques and conservation of secular wall paintings : proceedings of the Secular Wall Paintings Symposia organised by the Icon Stone and Wall Paintings Group and supported by English Heritage, London 2004-5 / edited by Robert Gowing and Robyn Pender

Object Details

Author

Secular Wall Paintings Symposia (2004-5 : London, England)

Gowing, Robert

Pender, Robyn

English Heritage

Institute of Conservation

Selected conference papers.

Contents

1: History, development and care of secular wall paintings -- Elusive sources of Renaissance wall paintings / Anthony Wells-Cole -- Was there a Guise Palace in Edinburgh? / Michael Bath -- Secular wall paintings in the Welsh marches / Kathryn Davies -- Pattern and colour in late 16th- and 17th-century secular wall and panel paintings in Suffolk: an overview / Andrea Kirkham -- Changing rooms: changes in use and their impact on wall painting conservation / Tom Organ -- Painted kings and painted gods (continental copy or English inspiration? The painted Baroque interior) / Giles Worsley -- 'The negligence of men'--restoration techniques and the altered appearance of Baroque wall paintings / Jane Davies -- Mural paintings withing the historic royal palaces: our approach to their continuous care / Kate Frame and Sophie Julien-Lees -- The art of the house painter: vernacular mural decoration c.1650-1841 / James Ayres -- Image and identity in mural painting in British public buildings, 1840-1940 / Clare A. P. Willsdon -- Contemporary mural painting: trends and traditions / Ernestine McKay -- 2: Conservation and research case studies -- The Catherine Room, Windsor Castle / Ann Ballantyne -- Sixteenth-century wall paintings at The Forge, Much Hadham, Herfordshire / Jane Rutherfoord -- The public and private face of English Baroque wall painting: Milgate House, Kent and the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Carline Babington and Richard Pelter -- Bedfordshire's baroque masterpiece: the Thomas Archer Pavilion at Wrest Park / Stephen Paine and Sophie Stewart -- The rediscovery of the lost ceiling decorations in the Saloon at Burlington House / Pauline Plummer and Peter Schmitt -- The treatment of the Entrance Hall at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: changing approaches to the conservation of 19th-century polychromy / Tobit Curteis -- Tracking historic attitudes towards wall painting conservation: Lord Leighton's frescoes at the V&A / Robert Gowing -- Rex Whistler: a comparative study of three decorative schemes / Marguerite O'Leary -- More myth than mural: a study of the Hans Feibusch murals at South Civic Centre, Newport, South Wales / Kate Hunter and Elizabeth Holford

2007

Type

Congresses

Physical description

xx, 218 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm

Place

Great Britain

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Mural painting and decoration

Mural painting and decoration--Conservation and restoration

Record ID

siris_sil_822012

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