The Ghent Altarpiece project
This work by Carmen Rio is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Learning goal
- To acquire useful vocabulary in order to be able to comment on various aspects of panel painting conservation.
To achieve that goal, you should become familiar with the words in the resource, paying special attention to those included in the exercise. The interactive activity provides feedback so that you can evaluate your performance.
Watch the video
Watch the video "Ghent Altarpiece project overview", uploaded onto YouTube on 15 August 2012 by the Getty Foundation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diVKNPNBz2A). If you have trouble following the video, you can access the script here.
Find the English equivalents
Find in the video the English counterparts for the following terms:
a. retablo:
b. tratamiento:
c. pintura sobre tabla:
d. investigación: