To investigate the methodological affinities between classical philology and conservation may appear venturesome, even anachronistic, in a society that now entrusts itself almost entirely to the miracles of artificial intelligence. In both disciplines, the aspiration to discern an ‘original’ form contend, on the one hand, with the irreversibility of transmission and, on the other, with the difficulty of drawing a consistently clear distinction between what belongs to the origin and what history has produced. Transposed with due caution into the field of conservation, alongside the many other forms of knowledge, this approach can offers further means of critically interrogating the relationship between material fabric and sources, persistence and transformation, thus returning once more to the lesson of the classics.
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Titolo del capitolo
Lessons from the Classics: The Contemporary Relevance of Critical Inquiry in Conservation
Autori
Susanna Caccia Gherardini
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0.07
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Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
ReUso 2026 - New heritage and future strategies. Perspectives on conservation and promotion
Sottotitolo del libro
14th International Congress Barcelona-Girona, 4-7 November
Curatori
Alessandro Scarnato, Marisa García Vergara, Ángeles Layuno Rosas
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Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0
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979-12-215-1113-0
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979-12-215-1112-3
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