Conserving Canvas Villa with photographs by Rosamond Purcell

with photographs by Rosamond Purcell

painting a picture of what life would have been like for a woman of the era

Hersilia’s Sisters illuminates ways that cultural life and civil society were rebuilt during these years through an extraordinary efflorescence of women pioneers in every cultural domain—literature

music and dance

the development of early science

Conserving Canvas Villa with photographs by Rosamond PurcellEdited by Cynthia Schwarz, Ian McClure, and Jim Coddington The most authoritative publication in nearly fifty years on the subject of conserving paintings on canvas. In 2019, Yale University, with the support of the Getty Foundation, held an international conference, where nearly four hundred attendees from more than twenty countries gathered to discuss a vital topic: how best to conserve paintings on canvas. It was the first major symposium on the