This paper develops an understanding of the complex interplay of perspectives implicit in
the multifaceted practice of Cultural Materials Conservation, as it pertains to individuals …

The modern understanding of the cultural heritage and its value has a wide scope. It extends
from natural heritage, through culture (including tangible and intangible heritage values as …

This article explores the use of medical metaphors in conservation discourse, analysing their
impact on shaping the concept of conservation through the lens of cognitive linguistics and …

Italian Renaissance artists happily retouched and repainted religious icons “to revive the
colors to the desired freshness... or to update the paintings' iconography”(Conti 2004, 106 …

The inscription of a strange-looking industrial site-coalmine on Hashima-on the World
Heritage Site has proved to be the most publicly contested debate of heritage making work …

A noção de integridade figura como valor fundamental à preservação de bens culturais.
Inicialmente voltada para as características físicas dos objetos, a ideia de integridade …

Why do we preserve? The thesis questions and explores an undoubted belief in the
preservation of a material past. This founding heritage of conservation is traced back to the …