Strange Bedfellows: The Scottish Renaissance Meets Twenty-First-Century Missoni. The Conservation and Restoration of Two Early-Seventeenth-Century Painted Ceilings and a Painted Plaster Panel at 302–304 Lawnmarket in Edinburgh's Old Town
| Autor: | Fiona Allardyce, Karen Dundas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Zdroj: | The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice. 2:5-20 |
| ISSN: | 1756-7513 1756-7505 |
| DOI: | 10.1179/175675011x12943261434521 |
| Popis: | This article provides an account of recent conservation work on two painted Scottish Renaissance board and beam ceilings in a historic building in Edinburgh's Old Town. Included is a brief history of the painted ceilings, and the way that their future use affected their presentation. Shortly after their initial construction and decoration in the early seventeenth century, these ceilings were considered to have become 'unfashionable', and were covered over with lath and plaster. Almost 300 years later, they were discovered, relocated within the building and heavily restored when the rooms were revamped as various city council offices. Most recently they have been incorporated within a modern hotel setting, as part of the new five-star Hotel Missoni. The work was divided into four stages: protection and environmental monitoring of the ceilings during early building works; removal of later restorations; preservation of the original paintwork; and sympathetic restoration or reconstruction of missing ... |
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