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  1. Awakening Apollo/Behind the Scenes of a Restoration at the Louvre (2006)

    Subject
    Architecture; Art; Crafts
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 165 minutes), £19.99

    Two films on the restoration of the Apollo Gallery in the Louvre.

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  2. Physics and Fine Art (1992 Video)

    Subject
    Art; Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £10.00 (inclusive)

    Looks behind the scenes at the National Gallery, London, to show how physics helps the art world in attributing, interpreting and preserving works of art. Famous paintings by masters such as Rembrandt come...

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  3. Restoration of a Painting, The (1976 Film, Video)

    Director
    Peter H Coltman
    Producer
    Peter H Coltman
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows some of the basic processes used in cleaning and restoring oil paintings on canvas. About the methods of Harry Woolford, who recently retired from the post of chief restorer to the National Galleries...

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  4. Dulwich Picture Gallery (2005)

    Subject
    Architecture; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £21.99

    Dulwich Picture Gallery is England’s first purpose-built public art gallery. Designed by Sir John Soane, the influential building holds one of the world’s finest Old Master collections including great...

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  5. Closer to Home: The Restoration of Leighton House Museum (2010)

    Director
    Frederique Cifuentes Morgan
    Subject
    Architecture; Crafts
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes)

    From October 2008 - April 2010, Leighton House Museum closed for extensive restoration and refurbishment. This was an important moment in the history of the house, reinstating the historic interiors to as...

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  6. Science and Fine Art (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £25.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    A Royal Institution Discourse in which David Bomford of the National Gallery, London, examines the long tradition of applying scientific techniques to the study of works of art. He reviews past and present...

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  7. Leonardo Da Vinci: ‘Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist’: The Restoration (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 1999 sale £10.00 (inclusive)

    Records the work of restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist’, undertaken by Eric Harding following serious damage by gunshot in 1987. In doing...

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  8. Loves of the Gods, The: The Carracci Cartoons and the Farnese Gallery (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1999 sale £10.00 (inclusive)

    Focuses on the creative processes that led to the frescoes of the Farnese Gallery, executed between 1997 and 1600 by Annibale and Agostino Carracci and filmed on location in the Farnese Palcace in Rome. Also...

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  9. Restoration Stage, The: From Tennis Court to Playhouse (Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Drama
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 46 min., £38.00 (+VAT inc p&p)

    Traces the origins of the first Restoration playhouses in London from the example of French tennis court theatres in Paris. Shows how Sir William Davenant’s 1661 adaptation of Lisle’s tennis court into a...

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  10. Restoring ‘The Ambassadors’ (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Patricia Wheatley
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £13.00 (inclusive)

    Follows the three-year project to clean and restore the Hans Holbein’s painting in the National Gallery, London. Shows how the complex paint structure is investigated by scientific analysis, distinguishing...

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