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Polychrome Sculpture
Johannes Taubert
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Description for Polychrome Sculpture
Paperback. Polychrome sculpture has come to be widely regarded as a watershed text on the making and meaning of European medieval and Baroque painted wood sculpture. The author played a pioneering role in combining the rigorous scientific analysis of materials with a fuller understanding of form and function. Num Pages: 216 pages, 240 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
This book features a masterwork in the field of conservation published in English for the first time. In the decades since its initial publication in German in 1978, Polychrome Sculpture has come to be widely regarded as a watershed text on the making and meaning of European medieval and Baroque painted wood sculpture. An early proponent of interdisciplinary research, Johannes Taubert played a pioneering role in combining the rigorous scientific analysis of materials with a fuller understanding of form and function, an approach that has led to the development of technical art history as practiced today. Many of the essays ... Read more
This book features a masterwork in the field of conservation published in English for the first time. In the decades since its initial publication in German in 1978, Polychrome Sculpture has come to be widely regarded as a watershed text on the making and meaning of European medieval and Baroque painted wood sculpture. An early proponent of interdisciplinary research, Johannes Taubert played a pioneering role in combining the rigorous scientific analysis of materials with a fuller understanding of form and function, an approach that has led to the development of technical art history as practiced today. Many of the essays ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, United States
ISBN
9781606064337
SKU
V9781606064337
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Ref
99-15
About Johannes Taubert
JOHANNES TAUBERT (1922-1975), a prominent art historian and conservator, was head of the Bayerisches Landesamt fur Denkmalpflege (Bavarian State Department for the Preservation of Monuments). MICHELE D. MARINCOLA is Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Conservation at the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and the conservator at The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Reviews for Polychrome Sculpture
Throughout the book, Marincola has added extremely useful references from conservators and technical art historians, bringing the volume up-to-date. . . . Marincola and The Getty Conservation Institute are to be congratulated for this initiative and this very handsome volume that will be useful not only for wood sculpture conservators, but also for all historians of medieval art and well ... Read more