Terminology associated with the conservation and restoration of painting

Abstract

In Portugal, three terms are used to define the final phase of an intervention of conservation and restoration: reintegration or integration, pictorial or chromatic, and retouching. This article is a survey of some bibliographic reference sources, national and international, in order to understand which of the three terms is the most used.

Keywords

• Terminology
• Painting
• Intervention
• Reintegration
• Integration
• Retouching