Word: restorationism
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Michael N. Lichten, assistant dean for Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) physical resources and a leader of the restoration efforts, said that while FAS buildings had suffered from weather-induced leaks in the past, he didn’t “remember anything anywhere near this extensive.?...
Building restoration began immediately after the leak had been sealed. Water was pumped out and hot air pumped in through yellow tubes attached to drying machines in the Barker parking lot, which raised ground floor temperatures to 108 degrees for a week or so, according to Parimal G. Patil, assistant...
The most convinced antis are James Beck, head of the department of art history at Columbia University; Alexander Eliot, a former art critic of TIME; and Alessandro Conti, a Florentine historian of restoration technique who published a book on the issue. Eliot makes the ridiculous claim that "nearly half of...
The antis make much of the fact that AB-57 -- a dilute solution of ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, a fungicide and gelling agent in water -- has been used for cleaning stone. But on stone it is left for between one and 24 hours and is strengthened by the disodium salt...
The Vatican has certainly made some blunders in presenting this work to its audience. It should have allayed suspicions of haste by fully publishing its scientific analyses of the ceiling, its problems and its techniques of restoration. It was stupid to spring the cleaned lunettes on the public in 1984...