The Courtauld Gallery is home to one of the greatest collections of art in the UK and an annual programme of focused exhibitions, displays and contemporary commissions. All housed in a beautiful human-sized gallery at Somerset House.
The Courtauld Institute is a research-led, independent college of the University of London, offering world–renowned programmes in the history, conservation, curation and business of art.
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...of the Heian and Kamakura periods negotiated the challenges of maintaining, repairing, and reusing their icons. The first part examines ritual instructions preserved in medieval collections that emphasize the conservation...
...electronic and structural properties of molecules and inorganic materials, spectroscopic properties, and characterization of archaeological and art-historical artifacts. Organised by Dr Austin Nevin (Head of Department of Conservation, The Courtauld)....
This cluster brings together staff from Art History, Conservation and the Gallery to explore intersections and divergences with Art and Architectural History as practised within and beyond the University and...
Introduction: A ‘cope’ that wasn’t – the power of conservation My introduction begins with a brief story that might raise a smile – or at least an eyebrow – not...
...conversations Sarah MacDougall (Director of Ben Uri) and Aviva Burnstock (Professor of Conservation at The Courtauld) will kick off by discussing their past collaborative technical and art-historical study of paintings...
...Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Art and Conservation at The Courtauld, and supported by the ERC Synergy Grant ‘Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State’, this conference will be...
...in the National Order of the Legion of Honour) by the President of the French Republic for his outstanding achievements in Heritage conservation and his personal affection towards France. He...
...by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure and the Sherman Fairchild Paintings Conservation Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has revealed Piero’s obsessive working and reworking of compositions. Disegno, in...
...records of all known British medieval wall paintings as well as extensive material on post-medieval schemes of painted decoration. Encompassing photographic records, conservation reports, annotated publications and previously unpublished research,...
...Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History Painting Pairs presents collaborative research undertaken by graduates in conservation and art history focussing on paintings currently in the conservation studios at the...
...In this time, The Courtauld has grown as the world’s foremost academic centre for art history, curation, and the conservation of painting, and its Gallery has flourished. Deborah has shown...
