Publisher's Synopsis
By critically analyzing policies and practices related to the preservation of historic monuments in England, France, Germany and the Netherlands since the end of the 18th century, this work demonstrates that ideas about the restoration of old buildings have been less subject to change than is generally imagined, and that the idea that the restoration of a historic building should imply the conservation of that building as a historic document is not an invention of the 20th century.;The restoration case studies included here, which draw on the work of Sir George Gilbert Scott, Violett-le-Duc, Franz Kugler and J. VerLoren, and the contemporary debates that surrounded these projects, provide examples to support the author's claims.
