"Conserving the Past for the Future"
2001-03-04 until 2001-05-06
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH, USA

This exhibition explores the museums crucial role as the custodian of irreplaceable and often surprisingly fragile materials — the artistic heritage from past decades, centuries, and even millennia. Ensuring that such objects survive into the future requires reliance on newly developing technologies and techniques to understand, preserve, and treat aging works of art; plus ongoing renewal of the philosophical and ethical considerations in art conservation.

Highlights of this show of about 65 works include the museums over-life-size Thinker by Auguste Rodin, permanently damaged by a bomb blast in 1970. On view here for the first time in more than 20 years will be a painting of Saint Catherine, attributed when purchased in 1974 to the German Renaissance master Matthias Grünewald, revealed through conservators research to be a 20th-century forgery An interactive computer display and hands-on activities with examples of artists materials will also be part of the installation.

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