Internationally renowned art curator, YouTuber, blogger, author of the Save Your Stuff book series, The a Expert talks about Restoring and protecting valuable art and collectibles, China and ceramics.
In the final segment of your interview with Frankie Boyer, the topic revolves around 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 repair broken china or restore a work of art.
As a child, Scott was always interested in science and the arts. That stayed with him throughout college. When I was about to get my bachelor’s degree, the president of his art history program asked him if he had ever considered “art conservation” for graduate work. I hadn’t even heard of him. It turns out that 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 world’s industrialized nations have formal art conservation programs (Scott is not referring to private restoration schools, trade schools, or apprenticeship programs) where you can earn something comparable to a master’s degree in the US. Waiting lists to enter these university or government programs are often long and a new application is required for years. But, the stars aligned and he 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, I was looking at scaffolding and receiving instructions to work on an affresco dated 1365. With a big smile, he pinched me and said, “This is great!” He appreciated the experience knowing that other art conservation students from around the world were going to have limited practical experience, especially during the two years. And here he was, already in the middle of things from the beginning. He was not disappointed in his choice over the years. During his three-year program, he worked on numerous Renaissance-to-Baroque afforests in former abbeys, libraries, and churches. He also worked on many small and very large canvases. We work in situ and in the state-of-the-art laboratories of the conservation center.
The modern scientific art conservation facility was in an 800-year-old converted monastery across the valley from a northern Italian marble quarry on the outskirts of Brescia, next to Lake Garda.
He received instruction from experienced professionals who had worked around the world on UNESCO projects (on murals in temples in Burma and on tombs in Egypt) and who were knowledgeable about international standards of practice and techniques, especially after working with the international community. in response to the devastating Flood Flood of 1966 (9 years earlier). The professors and teachers of 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 three-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; Wall paintings (murals), canvas paintings (easel paintings) and art on paper. I don’t work on books, furniture, stained glass, old cowboy boots, vintage cars, old documents, mummies … just paintings. From this point in the story onward, 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:
To view a featured article in the Life section of the Santa Barbara News-Press, visit http: //www.fineartconservationlab.com/media-roo … ewspaper /
Article published in New York City on the conservation of murals in Los Angeles http: //www.artsy.net/article/artsy-edit … ne-mural-at-a-time
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