{"id":16219,"date":"2016-12-21T22:04:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T03:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=16219"},"modified":"2016-12-21T22:04:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T03:04:57","slug":"a-distorted-picture-of-the-work-that-the-average-conservator-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2016\/12\/21\/a-distorted-picture-of-the-work-that-the-average-conservator-does\/","title":{"rendered":"A distorted picture of the work that the average conservator does?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tuesday, December 20, 2016 Science section of The New York Times contains a front page article by Milan Schreuer on a multi-year project to study and restore the \u201cGhent Altarpiece\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/19\/science\/ghent-altarpiece-restoration.html?_r=0\">\u201cUncovering a Master\u2019s Strokes\u201d <\/a>). The article discusses how macro-x-ray fluorescence analysis, a technique developed at the University of Antwerp which allows one to observe the paint surface in 3D and see how the layers are structured, is being used to differentiate overpaint from original paint on the panels.  It\u2019s a huge, expensive, transformative project. The kind we love to read about and the kind which generates excitement\u2014hence the front page story. But do articles about such projects give the public a distorted picture of the work that the average conservator does?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tuesday, December 20, 2016 Science section of The New York Times contains a front page article by Milan Schreuer on a multi-year project to study and restore the \u201cGhent Altarpiece\u201d (\u201cUncovering a Master\u2019s Strokes\u201d ). The article discusses how macro-x-ray fluorescence analysis, a technique developed at the University of Antwerp which allows one to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2016\/12\/21\/a-distorted-picture-of-the-work-that-the-average-conservator-does\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A distorted picture of the work that the average conservator does?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}