Foreword
Philippe Jockey

INTRODUCTION
L’éclat: the scientific challenges of an extinguished brilliance Philippe Jockey

THE VOCABULARY OF LIGHT REFLECTED
All that glitters is not gold…
Clarisse Prêtre

Matte surfaces: meaning for audiences of 18th-century pastel portraits and the implications for their care today
Thea Burns

Brilliance and the imprint: Roman mural painting, an architectural epidermis
Maud Mulliez

The eternal life of the painting: obliteration versus the brilliance of the artist’s genius
Ana González Mozo

ANCIENT, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARYS TAGINGS OF ÉCLAT AND ITS ERASURE
Architecture and the radiance of Greek sculpture
Sophie Montel

Colour, radiance and meaning. A semiological perspective on Greek Archaic Korai
Anthony Mathé

Technology in the arts, humanities and cultural heritage
Franz Fischnaller

Ritual practices of ‘preservative’ obliteration in the Iron Age. An archaeological perspective on the choice of colours and materials
Mario Denti

De-gild, re-gild, erase. The decorations of Paleo-Christian churches (4th-6th century). The morals of religion and the political discourse of erasure and obliteration – the role of materials
Elisabetta Neri

“A world of material splendour”. Walter Pater and the paradox of Greek sculptural polychromy
Charlotte Ribeyrol

“A world of material splendour”. Walter Pater and the paradox of Greek sculptural polychromy
Charlotte Ribeyrol

POST SCRIPTA
Some reflections on éclat and its erasure. The perspective of a restorer and translator
Helen Glanville

The luminous materials of the divine
Claudio Seccaroni

Cronache del restauro
Il Gabinetto in “cuoio dorato” della Villa Reale di Monza. Provenienza, analisi e restauro
Sofia Incarbone

Un inedito duplice bozzetto di Joseph Mallord William Turner
Roberta Lapucci, Leonardo Borgioli

Il Ritratto del Conte Antonio Porcìa di Tiziano e i suoi restauri
Andrea Carini

Il restauro di Modulo bianco a tripla struttura di Vanna Nicolotti
Lodovica Picciolli, LuciaVanghi

La ricerca
Valorizzazione e conservazione del patrimonio fotografico. Intervento
di conservazione in “cold storage” di materiali sensibili su pellicola
Letizia Montalbano, Annalisa Lusuardi, Emanuela Sesti

Metodologia di studio per il restauro di un abito del XVII secolo. Riscoperto a Milano un capolavoro d’arte suntuaria
Francesco Pertegato