Research

Our publications consider artistic technique and conservation history:

Matthew Hayes. The Renaissance Restored: Paintings conservation and the birth of modern art history in nineteenth-century Europe. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2021.

This publication was generously supported by a Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC)/Samuel H. Kress Conservation Publication Fellowship.

Anne-Marie Eze, Matthew Hayes, Ian Kennedy and Ian Verstegen. Titian, the Della Rovere Dynasty, and His Portrait of Guidobaldo II and his Son. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2021.

Matthew Hayes and Karen E. Thomas. “The Materials and Making of Botticelli’s Young Man Holding a Roundel.” Sotheby’s 2020.

Matthew Hayes. “Titian’s Portrait of Guidobaldo II della Rovere and his son Francesco Maria II: Technique, Change, and Conservation.” Kermes 32, no. 114-115 (2019): 109-18.

Matthew Hayes. “On the origins of Alois Riegl’s conservation theory.” Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 58, no. 3 (2019): 132-143.  

Matthew Hayes. “‘A higher reality, born of the mind’: notes for a philosophy of transfer.” In Conservation in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Isabelle Brajer, 45-53. London: Archetype, 2013.