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Internationally renowned art curator, YouTuber, blogger, author of the Save Your Stuff book series, The aExpert talks about the restoration and protection of valuable art, porcelain and ceramics and collectibles.
In the final segment of his interview with Frankie Boyer, the topic turns to how to avoid being scammed by shady appraisers or restoration specialists. Scott also gives examples of how to protect valuables from natural disasters and find the right person to fix broken china or restore a piece of art.
As a child, Scott was always interested in science and the arts. That stayed with him through college. When he was about to get my bachelor’s degree, the chair of the art history program asked him if he had ever considered “art conservation” for graduate work. He hadn’t even heard of it. Turns out it was the perfect marriage of his two main interests: “The application of science to the preservation and restoration of art.”
Scott’s Formal Training:
Most of the industrialized nations of the world have formal art conservation programs (Scott is not talking about private restoration schools, trade schools, or apprenticeship programs) where you can get something comparable to a master’s degree in the US. Waiting lists to get into these university or government programs are often long, requiring a new application for years. But the stars aligned and I was admitted after my first application to the conservation center in Lombardy, Italy, a satellite program affiliated with the National Center in Rome (ICR).
The first week of school, he was looking for scaffolding and getting instructions to work on an affresco dated 1365. With a big smile, he pinched me and said, “This is great!” She appreciated the experience knowing that other art conservation students from around the world were going to have limited hands-on experience, especially the two years. And here he was, already in the middle of things from the beginning. He was not disappointed with his choice over the years. During his three-year program, he worked on numerous Renaissance to Baroque frescoes in former abbeys, libraries, and churches. He also worked on many small and very large canvases. We work on site and in the state-of-the-art laboratories of the conservation center.
The modern scientific art conservation facility was housed in a converted 800-year-old monastery across the valley from a northern Italian marble quarry on the outskirts of Brescia, by Lake Garda.
He received instruction from experienced practitioners who had worked around the world on UNESCO projects (on murals in temples in Burma and on tombs in Egypt) and who were well informed about current international standards of practice and techniques, especially after working with the international community. in response to the devastating Florence flood of 1966 (9 years earlier). The professors and teachers at the conservation center came from Rome and Scott’s class went to Rome often to interact with the Istituto Centrale Del Restauro.
He graduated from the Italian government’s formal 3-year painting/mural restoration and conservation program in mid-1978.
As you can see, art conservation and restoration has specializations in the profession. Scott works on paintings; Paintings on walls (murals), paintings on canvas (easel paintings) and art on paper. He doesn’t work on books, furniture, stained glass, old cowboy boots, old cars, old documents, mummies…just paintings. From this point in the story onwards, it will allow you to scroll through the background information in the navigation bar below the header photos on your website at
https://www.FineArtConservationLab.com/media-room
Also, here are a couple of newspaper articles:
For a featured article in the Life Section of the Santa Barbara News-Press, go to http://www.fineartconservationlab.com/media-roo… ewspaper/
Article in New York City on mural conservation in Los Angeles http://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-edit… ne-mural-at-a-time
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