At times controversial and uncompromising, always intellectually honest, Alessandro Conti s book is - astonishingly the only attempt to comprehensively chart in time, the changing impact of man s desire to preserve for future generations the materials, meaning and appearances of works of art. Remarkable in its meticulous research of source material and breadth of scope, History of the Restoration and Conservation of Works of Arts, translated by Helen Glanville, charts the practices and underlying philosophies of conservation and restored works of art from the Middle Ages to the end of the...