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(Or Fiction that Acknowledges the Existence of Conservation and Conservators)
Rebecca Anne Rushfield & Patricia S. GriffinIf you have additions, updates, or corrections, please send them to Rebecca A. Rushfield <wittert@juno.com>
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From a review by Steve Rhodes:
"The plot is an intriguing one. A dishonest violin restorer, Charles Morritz ([Samuel L.] Jackson), believes he has located Nicolo Bussotti's famous red violin. Described as the "single most perfect acoustical machine" ever, the violin has had a long and troubled history. The movie skips back to its controversial birth in 1681 and then flashes forward and backward in time as it traces the violin's world travels."
Travis Marshall, a character in episodes 5- 12 of Season 6 also known as The Doomsday Killer ( DDK) is tied to a series of murders in Miami based on the Book of Revelations. Marshall studied at the University of Tallahassee where he earned his Masters Degree in Art History and at the Miami Museum of Art as a Conservator in Papers and Bindings. He comes to attention because a unique glue he uses at work is found at a murder site.
Middle aged artist who restores art in his dry periods while conducting an affair with a teenaged pupil and murdering.
A retired American astronaut living in Alaska purchases an antique German timepiece at great expense. The piece arrives accompanied by a young German craftsman/restorer who assembles the components and starts the mechanism. The new owner is upset that it does not keep perfect time and tries to get the craftsman to "fix it". The craftsman packs up the clock saying that anyone who demands accuracy from a centuries old work of art does not deserve to own it. Eventually the astronaut comes to accept the clock as it is and the craftsman lets him keep it.
Aronson Art Conservation in downtown Los Angeles is robbed of a number of valuable paintings when that part of the city is evacuated during a bomb scare.
At the Sleepy Hollow Historical Society, a paintings restorer working on a painting finds that it is bleeding. The restorer is found dead at a party in which the picture is on display.
In this episode about a Pissarro with tainted provenance, a paintings conservator working alone at a small museum does authentication, cleaning, and exhibition catalog preparation. The story deals with theft, Nazi looting, forgery, and authentication. Using a catalog image, mathematician Charlie Eppes analyzes the painting surface, specifically craquelure and brush stroke morphology, the latter using the curvelet transform.
This section deals with works that, while not primarily about conservation or conservators, contain material that in one way or another provides information about the perception of the conservation profession in media or the public imagination
"He thinks about Botox and Restylane and lasering spider veins and resurfacing a face and sometimes he feels like a conservator, like the guy he once sat next to at a dinner, who worked at the Met, touching up art works when they chipped or when the ceiling leaked on them".