Tratados de restauro de pinturas: 3

T. H. Fielding, The Knowledge and Restoration of Old Paintings: The Modes of Judging Between Copies and Originals, London, Ackermann and Co., 1847, 217 pp., aqui

Índice:

• The different modes of distinguishing copies from originals
• Comparisons of pictures with others
• To compare the best with the best in order to make a high scale of merit the test
• To study the best engravings
• To judge an artist’s works by his mode of designing
• Greatest originality to be found in colouring
• Peculiarity of touch and finish
• Number of pictures imported
• How disposed of
• The arguments against or in favour of originality
• Rules for the construction of a good picture, as effect, drawing, &c., &c.
• Necessity of understanding linear and aerial perspective
• The greatest colourists
• The value of different works
• Not safe to buy a picture much obscured
• Improvement of public taste indebted to lithography
• Modern antiques manufactured in Italy
• Manufactories of ancient coins. &c.
• Good copies of paintings valuable
• Hints to the collectors of modern pictures
• List of prices paid for the pictures in the National Gallery
• Restoration of old paintings
• A valuable picture discovered
• Remarkable discovery of Titian's pictures at Blenheim
• Their subjects - eight in number
• Method of commencing to clean an old painting
• To remove varnish. &c.
• Cracked pictures
• On lining pictures
• The mode of removing a picture from wood to cloth, &c.
• Operations after the transfer
• Old paintings sometimes best restored by water colours as the works of P . Veronese, the Bassanos, &c., &c.
• Alkalies to be used seldom
• Spirits of wine, &c., to be preferred
• Fuller's earth, sulphuric ether, volatile alkali, &c
• Vehicles best used to obtain the transparency of Van Goyen, Bega, Ostade, Teniers, &c.
• Shell lac varnish
• To take away the colour from shell lac
• Shell lac as a water varnish
• Painting in distemper
• A ground used by Correggio
• Invention or discovery of oil painting
• Wax used by the ancients in painting
• Best modes of proceeding in restorations and copying
• Lives of artists belonging to the Italian, Spanish, and French schools