In a letter to a young friend, the artist Burne Jones once drew a cartoon of himself “attempting to join the world of art” by climbing into a picture – the effort ends up disastrously, of course, when he falls right through the canvas! Spending much of my time struggling to get ‘inside’ of paintings
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As a restorer who makes his living cleaning and restoring old master paintings, it is my intention in these notes to explain what this work entails – what can be done to prolong the life of a work of art whilst ensuring that its appearance remains as close as possible to its original condition –
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