Conservation Legacies of the Florence Flood of 1966: Proceedings from the Symposium Commemorating the 40th Anniversary Edited by Helen Spande
	The 1966 Florence Flood revolutionized the field of art conservation as had no other single event, and served as a catalyst for the development of new materials and methods of restoration, particularly for mass and large-scale treatment. The lessons learned extend far beyond a list of approved materials and techniques, or of approaches to avoid. The papers in this volume not only give us a record of the conditions at the time, but also allow us to be better prepared to face such a disaster again, and how to mitigate the risk of damage occurring in the first place. Contents: Preface Ellyn Toscano Foreword Rebecca Rushfield Introduction Michele Marincola Acknowledgements Press release 11 November 2006 Senator Edward M. Kennedy Oral history of the Florence flood: personal recollections Marco Grassi, Andrea Rothe, Joe Nkrumah, Peter Matthiesen, Natalie Brooke, Dorothy Cumpstey, Lucilla Kingsbury, Mette Bjarnhof, Karel Stretti, Dorota Niesiolowska, Erling Skaug, Henrik Bjerre, Anne Pelikan, Anthony Cains, Robert Feller, Nicolette Bingham, Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti and Peter Mallory An account of the flood and the days that followed Sandro Pintus The development of mass treatments: an overview of the experience of book and paper conservators Sheila Waters The work of the restoration centre in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze 1967–1971 Anthony Cains Training in book conservation after the flood Christopher Clarkson Where is the progress? Joe Nkrumah Improvements in the treatment of individual books as a result of the flood: a personal review Dag-Ernst Petersen The Florence flood in the popular imagination Joanna Hines The Florence flood: some personal recollections Marco Grassi Restoration in Florence following the flood Giorgio Bonsanti The rescue of statues and sculptures in Florence Kenneth Hempel New methods of paintings conservation developed in response to the flood Andrea Rothe The flood and the Palazzo Davanzati laboratories Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti Transfer of panel paintings after the flood Erling Skaug The Italian Art and Archives Rescue Fund Frances Clarke Building a network of support for conservation: the Committee to Rescue Italian Art Fred Licht Experiences from a selection of disasters from 1966 to 2003 Alan M. Farancz The experience of an American mud angel Peter Mallory Recovery of the panel paintings of Florence Cristina Acidini The United States Heritage Emergency National Task Force: disaster recovery now and in the future Debra Hess Norris, Jane Long and Mary Rogers
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