Feather Stories: The Saint Gregory Mass and the Ecouen Triptych

The French collections own some featherworks, four as long as we know. Two of them were the subject of an important campaign of study and restoration in 2002 : the 'Messe de Saint Grégoire" (Musée des Jacobins d'Auch) and a mexican triptych representing Christ on the cross (Musée nati...

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Autores principales: Claire Bergeaud, Frédérique Vincent
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Publicado: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2006
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:748e4d028ce04536acf6d13201810f642021-12-02T10:30:21ZFeather Stories: The Saint Gregory Mass and the Ecouen Triptych1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.1450https://doaj.org/article/748e4d028ce04536acf6d13201810f642006-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/1450https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252The French collections own some featherworks, four as long as we know. Two of them were the subject of an important campaign of study and restoration in 2002 : the 'Messe de Saint Grégoire" (Musée des Jacobins d'Auch) and a mexican triptych representing Christ on the cross (Musée national de la Renaissance d'Ecouen). The particularity of those artefacts implied the constitution of a multidisciplinary team. The collaboration of a support painting restorer and an ethnographic restorer, working together on the "feather mosaic", allowed to have a complementary vision on those artefacts. Our talk will present : a study of the techniques, and a comparative study of the two featherworks, a description of the degradation inherent in this type of objects, the restoration choices and the importance of preventive conservation. Many photographs will illustrate the presentation.Claire BergeaudFrédérique VincentCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticleconservationfeatherartimagesAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2006)
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FR
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topic conservation
feather
art
images
Anthropology
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Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
spellingShingle conservation
feather
art
images
Anthropology
GN1-890
Latin America. Spanish America
F1201-3799
Claire Bergeaud
Frédérique Vincent
Feather Stories: The Saint Gregory Mass and the Ecouen Triptych
description The French collections own some featherworks, four as long as we know. Two of them were the subject of an important campaign of study and restoration in 2002 : the 'Messe de Saint Grégoire" (Musée des Jacobins d'Auch) and a mexican triptych representing Christ on the cross (Musée national de la Renaissance d'Ecouen). The particularity of those artefacts implied the constitution of a multidisciplinary team. The collaboration of a support painting restorer and an ethnographic restorer, working together on the "feather mosaic", allowed to have a complementary vision on those artefacts. Our talk will present : a study of the techniques, and a comparative study of the two featherworks, a description of the degradation inherent in this type of objects, the restoration choices and the importance of preventive conservation. Many photographs will illustrate the presentation.
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Frédérique Vincent
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title Feather Stories: The Saint Gregory Mass and the Ecouen Triptych
title_short Feather Stories: The Saint Gregory Mass and the Ecouen Triptych
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title_fullStr Feather Stories: The Saint Gregory Mass and the Ecouen Triptych
title_full_unstemmed Feather Stories: The Saint Gregory Mass and the Ecouen Triptych
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