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  • ArtWatch at Thirty, Part I: The Unstoppable, “Rapidly Filed Away” Sistine Chapel Restoration

    November this year marked ArtWatch International’s thirtieth anniversary and May 26th next year will mark the fifteenth anniversary of the death of its founder, James Beck, Professor of Renaissance Art History at Columbia University. 

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  • Further Thoughts II: The less and less Leonardo ex-Cook collection Salvator Mundi

    Jacques Franck concludes a three-part demolition of the once attributed but now deposed, $450m New York/Russian/Saudi Leonardo da Vinci Salvator Mundi.

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  • PROLOGUE TO FURTHER THOUGHTS II

    Jacques Franck explores the damaging restorations and mis-attributed works that follow art historical studies and scientific essays made in ignorance of actual historical artistic practices.

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  • The Demise of the National Gallery’s “made just like Rubens” Samson and Delilah with inexplicably cropped toes

    Dalya Alberge reports a negative result on Artificial Intelligence comparisons of the Samson and Delilah’s brushwork with that on 148 uncontested Rubens paintings.

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  • Peter Freeth R. A. – 40 Years of Aquatints

    There are no fewer than seventy-six works of constant, unsettling power in this show – every one of which is monumental in its effect regardless of size.

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  • An Appliance of Science in Art Historical Studies

    “The thrilling focus put by Ann Pizzorusso’s research on the geology of Leonardo’s landscapes in works such as the Virgin of the Rocks and the Louvre’s The Virgin and Child with St. Anne is of foremost importance…”

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  • With the Sistine Chapel ceiling we know, but who wrecked Gustav Klimt’s Helene and Sonja portraits?

    A century on from Klimt’s death scarcely a single picture has survived restorations true to its original self.

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  • A National Gallery restoration that repudiates earlier National Gallery restorations

    Museum staffs invariably and hubristically claim that their expert and state-of-the-art picture restorations render all earlier studies obsolete.

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  • The Disappeared Salvator Mundi’s endgame: Part I: Altered States and a Disappeared Book

    The notoriously disappeared picture is set to become a musical in 2022 in which “artistic liberties will be freely taken to make an enlightening and entertaining experience”. Amazon is offering T-Shirts showing the Salvator Mundi as it had looked in 2011 when part-restored.

    Read the ArtWatch UK article here.
  • Further thoughts about the ex-Cook Collection Salvator Mundi

    The Leonardo Salvator Mundi controversy turns on which artist’s hand is – or which artists’ hands are – present on the painting. While many scholars agree that more than one hand is present, as is demonstrated here, neither belongs to Leonardo.

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  • The Saviour and a Stealth-Attribution

    After a dozen art historians had bet the art historical farm on a “from-nowhere” Salvator Mundi being an autograph Leonardo painting, it first fetched $450m in 2017 and then disappeared.

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  • Situating La Bella Principessa’s Eye

    Showing how the drawn construction of “La Bella Principessa’s” eye bears stylistic affinities with of eyes encountered in Cubist artists like Juan Gris and is anatomically incompatible with Leonardo’s own drawn and painted eyes.

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  • Hollow Gods and Dangerous Beauty

    The unsung – and free – delights of London’s non-museum, private art gallery network, as encountered in two memorable exhibitions on one street in St James’.

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  • From Guido to Boccioni – The Liberation and Repudiation of Classicism

    The Estorick Collection’s ground-breaking Anders Rådén and Matt Smith show Umberto Boccioni: Recreating the Lost Sculptures

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  • Books on No-Hope Attributions

    Recent additions to the fast-growing and least-estimable art-book publishing genre – The Partisan Book of Art Attribution Advocacy.

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  • The non-appearing, disappeared, $450million, now officially not-Leonardo, Salvator Mundi

    The downgrading of the $450million, supposedly long-lost, Leonardo-painted prototype Salvator Mundi by the Louvre Museum in its catalogue for the blockbuster exhibition “Léonard de Vinci”.

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  • Notre-Dame: A Tale of Two Pathologies

    An indecent, inferno-facilitated rush by the French State to rebuild “anew” a long-neglected and disparaged Gothic Cathedral as a “contemporary art gesture”.

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  • Notre-Dame Cathedral: Another restoration, another fire – and more unanswered questions

    The Notre-Dame Cathedral inferno was not an act of God. It arose within a particular restoration programme under a singular (ambivalent) French heritage ethos that has spawned many fires.

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  • $450 Million Salvator Mundi: Dead in the Water

    The attribution of the world’s most expensive painting – the $450 million Louvre Abu Dhabi Salvator Mundi – has collapsed under the combined weights of two scholars’ findings and the picture’s own artistic and art historical implausibility.

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  • The pear-shaped Salvatore Mundi

    New revelations send the Louvre Abu Dhabi Salvatore Mundi towards a pear-shaped fate.

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  • Two Developments in Abu Dhabi Louvre Leonardo Saga

    At left, a previous “Leonardo” Salvator Mundi contender. At right, the Louvre Abu Dhabi Salvator Mundi as sold in 2017. The seller is now suing Sotheby’s for fraud in connection with the sale to him of the painting.

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  • Whitewashing of Chartres Cathedral Stonework

    Chartres cathedral stone work in its pre- and post-restoration conditions.

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  • How the Louvre Abu Dhabi Salvator Mundi became a Leonardo-from-nowhere

    left to right: screenshot of 2005 state; as exhibited as an autograph Leonardo painting in Dec 2011 at the National Gallery; as sold at Christie’s, New York, in Nov 2017

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  • The Words of Conservation: Manet, Pastiche, and Authenticity at the Guggenheim

    Édouard Manet, Woman in Striped Dress (before and after treatment – DETAIL), 1877–80. Oil on canvas, 174.3 x 83.5 cm
    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, Gift, Justin K. Thannhauser, 1978. Photo: Allison Chipak. © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2018.

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  • “Leonardo scholar challenges attribution of $450m painting”

    Image: infra-red reflectogram of Louvre Abu Dhabi “Salvator Mundi”; detail of the London National Gallery’s “Christ among the Doctors” by Leonardo’s assistant, Bernardino Luini

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  • Deaccession Misperceptions

    Check the facts before critiquing the professionals.

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  • Berkshire Museum Art Goes to Auction

    Image: Art deaccessioned from the Berkshire on view at Sotheby’s. Courtesy: Two Coats of Paint blog.

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  • In Memoriam: Tom Wolfe (1930-2018)

    Image: Tom Wolfe as photographed in New York in 1968 by Sam Falk for The New York Times.

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  • Rodin & Ancient Greek Art: A Personal View of a Magnificent Show


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  • What is a Library without its Books? The Battle to Save the UT Austin Fine Arts Library.

    Image Courtesy: Abigail Sharp.

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  • The Leonardo "Salvator Mundi" Saga: Three Developments

    Image Courtesy: Drew Angerer / Getty Images – as published 2 Apr 2018 in “Buffalo News”.

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  • In Celebration: Paul Anthony Harford, Draughtsman

    On view at Focal Point Gallery through April 22nd (Southend-on-Sea, England).

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  • Startling Disclosures on the re-re-restored Leonardo Salvator Mundi

    Image: The two Arab princes who settled into a bidding war for the work. Courtesy: Getty Images.

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  • In Their Own Words Pt. 3: The Reception of the First Leonardo ‘Salvator Mundi’

    Image Courtesy: The Sunday Times Magazine (Oct 2011)

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  • In Their Own Words Pt 2: The Curse of (revenue-generating, thought-precluding) Audio-Guides

    Image: Clay Cofer, an Art Team member at the Barnes Foundation, does a pop-up gallery talk for visitors. Courtesy: SYDNEY SCHAEFER, Barnes Foundation Staff Photographer.

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  • In Their Own Words Pt 1: Civilisations & Burrell Loans

    Image: Simon Schama fronting the scathingly-received 2018 multi-voiced Civilisations outside Itimad-ud-Daulah’s Tomb in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. Courtesy: BBC.

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  • Holding the Public’s Interest: The Show of Art Conservation

    Image: Jackson Pollock Number 1, 1949 (1949). Enamel and metallic paint on canvas. Courtesy: MOCA LA.

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  • A day in the life of the new Louvre Abu Dhabi Annexe’s pricey new Leonardo Salvator Mundi

    Image: French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe with Shiekh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, CEO of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, during inauguration of BNP paribas Abu Dhabi Global market Branch on February 10, 2018. Courtesy: Karim Sahib for AFP / Art Daily.

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    2018-02-13 ArtWatch UK - Salvator Mundi Louvre Abu Dhabi
  • Nouveau riche? Welcome to the Club!

    Michael Daley considers Georgina Adams’ new book “The Dark Side of the Boom”.
    Image Courtesy: Amazon

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  • Who Gets the Conservation Dollars??

    Image Courtesy: Bank of America Art Conservation Project.

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  • The $450m New York Leonardo Salvator Mundi Part II: It Restores, It Sells, therefore It Is

    The painting being examined in the National Gallery in 2011. Courtesy: CNBC.

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    2018-02-05 - ArtWatch UK - Salvator Mundi Part II
  • Another Loss for Arts Stewardship: La Salle’s Sale

    Image Courtesy: La Salle University (Philadelphia, PA).

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  • Museums & the Public Interest: More Questions for the Berkshire Museum

    Image Courtesy: artnet News.

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  • Fragonard’s Layers & the Promotion of Conservation Treatments

    Image courtesy: Mandel Ngan / AFP.

    Read the ArtWatch article here.
  • Problems with the New York Leonardo Salvator Mundi Part I: Provenance and Presentation

    Images: Heydenreich’s 1964 study “Leonardo’s ‘Salvator Mundi’”.

    Read the ArtWatch UK article here.
  • Museum Mismanagement on Trial: The Berkshire Museum Taken to Court.


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  • Satellite Museum Dreams and Misgivings in Abu Dhabi

    Image courtesy: Saadiyat Cultural District website.

    Read the ArtWatch article here.
  • Degas and the Problem of Finish

    AWUK Feature by Alexander Adams.

    Image: Dance Examination (Examen de Danse), 1880. Courtesy: Denver Art Museum.

    Read the ArtWatch UK article here.
  • Leonardo, Salvator Mundi, and an “unusual lapse”

    Image: Salvator Mundi (detail)

    Read the ArtWatch UK article here.
  • THE ANNUAL JAMES BECK MEMORIAL LECTURE: ‘Never trust the teller trust the tale’

    A memorial lecture, two journals and an assault on scholarship.

    Image: Bartolomeo Manfredi, Mars Chastising Cupid, 1613. Courtesy: Art Institute of Chicago.

    Read the ArtWatch UK article here.
  • The (not so-new) latest New Leonardo Discovery.

    Image: detail of “Joconde nue” (as published showing prick marks when the design was transferred for use on panel). Courtesy: Musée Condé, Chantilly.

    Read the ArtWatch UK article here.
  • Mondrian, Schmondrian – another lapse of museum expertise.


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  • Master Plan? Or Master Disaster? The Nation’s Arts Community Reacts to the Berkshire Museum’s Plan to Sell 40 Works.

    Image: Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, MA.

    Read the ArtWatch article here.
  • UPDATE: Mucha’s “Slav Epic” in Transit

    Image: Mucha installation in 2011, which will now be shifted across two more continents. Courtesy: The Art Newspaper.

    Read the ArtWatch article here.
  • Review: Center for Art Law Event “F for Fake”.

    Image: Orson Wells in “F for Fake” (1973).

    Read the ArtWatch article here.
  • Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way: Rodin’s Fragile “L’Absolution” Treated for Display & Travel?

    Image: Auguste Rodin’s “L’Absolution” on display. Courtesy: Musée Rodin Paris.

    Read the ArtWatch article here.
  • Mucha’s “Slav Epic” On Tour: What Story Will the Canvases Tell after Two Years of Traveling?

    Image: “The-Slavs in Their Original Homeland” (1912). Courtesy: Mucha Foundation

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ArtWatch International is a non-profit 501(c)3 incorporated in the state of New York in 1992 as an international advocate for the voice of art in the conservation and stewardship of historically significant works. It was founded by Columbia University art historian Professor James Beck to serve as a watchdog organization in the arena of cultural policy, protecting works of art and the public interest from vested private and institutional interests. We operate on a project by project basis, establishing task forces to determine the levels and methods of engagement in specific conservation, restoration and cultural policy issues and problems. Some problems have been addressed through scholarly work and publications, other through advisory and consulting arrangements, still others by symposia, debate, lecture forums, and intensive work with the media.

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1998-01-01 - Tower of Pisa
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Tower Troubles: Damaging Effect of Modern Efforts to Stabilize Tower of Pisa

Can we bring our most treasured art objects and buildings back to their original glory by modern restorations? In Italy, which has by some estimates forty percent of the world’s masterpieces, there has been a concerted campaign to do just over the past twenty years. As the Jubilee Year approaches, the urgency to clean every […]

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January 1, 1998/by Kenn Richards
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1997-11-12 Giotto fresco Scrovegni Chapel Padua Kiss of Judas
Article

Earthquake damage to Assisi frescoes linked to modern reconstruction techniques; Giotto’s Padua frescoes threatened

Experts now suspect that the earthquake damage to the Assisi frescoes was caused in part by earlier structural changes in the building, particularly the use of reinforced concrete beams in the roof. Similar reinforcements have been used in old churches and could be threatening masterpieces contained within them. The most dramatic example is in Padua, […]

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November 12, 1997/2 Comments/by Kenn Richards
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1997-06-03 Leonardo da Vinco Andrea del Verrochio Baptism of Christ Uffizi
Article

For Immediate Release: Andrea del Verrocchio’s “Baptism of Christ” to be Restored at the Uffizi

ArtWatch International has learned that Andrea del Verrocchio’s most famous painting, the Baptism of Christ, a panel created for the church of San Salvi in Florence around 1475, has been removed from the wall of the Uffizi. One of the most prized masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance, it was executed by Andrea Verrocchio in collaboration […]

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June 3, 1997/by Kenn Richards
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1996-03-20 - Giotto frescoes Padua Arena Chapel
Petition, Position Statement

Petition to Save Giotto’s Frescoes in Padua

The elaborate conservation and restoration project for the Scrovegni or Arena Chapel sketched out by the Comune of Padua, who are the owners, reveal the intention is not merely to maintain the frescoes but to ‘improve’ them. It is also clear from the doc umentation distributed on 30 September 1995 by local Paduan officials in […]

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March 20, 1996/1 Comment/by Kenn Richards
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