Viollet-le-Duc can be said to have dominated 19th-century theories of architectural restoration; his initial aim was to restore in the style of the original, but his later restorations show that he often added entirely new elements of his own design.
Twentieth-century archaeologists and restorers have severely criticized these fanciful reconstructions and added structures posing as restorations, for they often destroy or render obscure the original form of the edifice.
"I was excited by the immediacy of it — how I was often the first person restoring a canvas, as opposed to dealing with a century of past restorations.
The carrot is visible not far from the crying monk's monastery: new expressways across the vast grasslands, new roads to remote villages, better housing for monks and restorations to their prayer-halls.
Among the most admired lottery projects have been the relatively inexpensive restorations of the Royal Court Theatre, the Wallace Collection and the Dulwich Picture Gallery, all in London.
In 2000, Bethlehem's Manger Square was smartened for the millennium with $200m-worth 200m-worth ofns.
As the camera jumps from canvases to meeting rooms, and from restorations to lectures, viewers get an overview not just of the extraordinary collection of Old Masters, but also of just how this great British institution works.
Further restorations, cleanings, uses and abuses of the temple and its sculptures bring the story down to the present.
They were decorated with brightly coloured reproductions of Minoan frescoes found in the excavation.Evans's restorations, while intended to preserve the Minoans' unique architecture, also reflected his imaginative theories about the luxurious lifestyle of Crete's prehistoric ruling class.
Amid decay and neglect, the whole thing has been held together as a single, intelligible image only by frequent earlier restorations.
The paint layers themselves are subject to a number of maladies as a result of natural decay, faulty original technique, unsuitable conditions, ill treatment, and improper earlier restorations.
