Conserving Canvas Villa Anthony van Dyck's portrait of

Anthony van Dyck's portrait of Thomas Howard was made during the artist's first visit to London and marked the beginning of his brilliant international career

the development of early science

Patricia Harpring is managing editor of the Getty Vocabulary Program

with photographs by Rosamond Purcell

and Wijnand Mijnhardt

Conserving Canvas Villa Anthony van Dyck's portrait ofEdited by Cynthia Schwarz, Ian McClure, and Jim Coddington The most authoritative publication in nearly fifty years on the subject of conserving paintings on canvas. In 2019, Yale University, with the support of the Getty Foundation, held an international conference, where nearly four hundred attendees from more than twenty countries gathered to discuss a vital topic: how best to conserve paintings on canvas. It was the first major symposium on the