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2023-242024-25
Module will run
Occurrence
Teaching period
A
Autumn Term 2022-23
Module aims
Students will explore the following:
recognition and description of historic conservation techniques, work with historic sources (e.g., account books, contracts);
early copying conservation technologies (medieval, Early Modern), conservation theory and practical exercises
developments in the Reformation and Enlightenment periods (new types of glass and painting methods), conservation theory and practical exercises
The rediscovery of the past: the Gothic revival from the eighteenth century, theoretical groundwork and practical exercises
Industrialization: glass production during the nineteenth century, theoretical groundwork and practical exercises
The preservation idea: the protection of traditional art treasures ca. 1900 and in the early twentieth century, theoretical groundwork and practical exercises
Synthetic resin is the thing: conservation technology from 1950-1970 - problems and opportunities, theoretical groundwork and practical exercises
modern conservation theory and the decisive position papers (the Venice Charter, Guidelines for the Conservation of Glass Painting, etc.).
Module learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module, students should have acquired:
an informed and critical understanding of historic approaches to the conservation of glass painting, and be conversant with a wide range of primary and secondary sources
practiced familiarity with the essentials of contemporary glass conservation, along with its fundamental texts
skill in recognising historic and modern conservation techniques, as well as the ability to reproduce them
integrated knowledge of a variety of perspectives, methodologies and approaches in modern stained glass conservation.
Indicative assessment
Task
% of module mark
Essay/coursework
100
Special assessment rules
None
Indicative reassessment
Task
% of module mark
Essay/coursework
100
Module feedback
Students receive copies of examiners comments as soon as marks have been ratified by the External Examiner.
Indicative reading
*Nicole Blondel, Le Vitrail: Vocabulaire tyologique et technique, (Paris, 1993)
Corpus Vitrearum, Guidelines for the Conservation and Restoration of Stained Glass, Second edition (Nuremberg, 2004; online at www.cvma.ac.uk/conserv/index.html )
Dehio, Georg and Riegl, Aloys, Konservieren, nicht restaurieren. Streitschriften zur Denkmalpflege um 1900, mit einem Kommentar von Marion Wohlleben und einem Nachwort von Georg M¶rsch, (Braunschweig, 1988)
*Lautier, Claudine and Sandron, Dany (eds), Anotine de Pise: LArt du Vitrail vers 1400 (Paris, 2008)
Oddy, Andrew, Restoration - is it acceptable? British Museum Occasional Paper 99 (London, 1994)
Plenderleith, Harold James, A History of Conservation, in Studies in Conservation, Vol. 43, Number 3, (1998): 129-39.
Rauch, Ivo, The Conservation and Restoration of Stained Glass: An Introduction to the Problems (2004), online at www.cvma.ac.uk/conserv/index.html )
*Shepherd, Mary B, Pilosi, Lisa and Strobl, Sebastian (eds), The Art of Collaboration. Stained Glass Conservation in the Twenty-First Century, CV United States of America Occasional Papers II (London/Turnhout 2010).
*Strobl, Sebastian, Glastechnik des Mittelalters (Stuttgart, 1990)