George Bisacca
George Bisacca is Conservator Emeritus at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Guest Critic
Unvarnished Truths
By George BisaccaThe history of restoration–today we call it “conservation” in order to distinguish it from a misbegotten 19th-century notion of returning the work of art to some imagined pristine original state–is fraught with controversy.
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