Light in the Making and Viewing of Art
|In art museums, conservators research and preserve works of art using a variety of analytical methods to study their component materials and mechanisms of deterioration. Frank Zuccari discusses how historical research and scientific methods helped attribute a painting in the Art Institutes collection to the well-known 18th-century French artist, Jean-Antoine Watteau.
|Bonnie Rimer helped create a module on the Art Institute Web site that features conservation issues related to Pablo Picassos enigmatic The Old Guitarist (1910). Hear Rimer speak about how The Old Guitarist module was created, or view the module and find why this work of art has puzzled people for more than 40 years.
Microscopy at The Art Institute of Chicago
|Inge Fiedler discusses how microscopy is used at the Art Institute to authenticate and evaluate the conditions of works of art.