Los Criteria in Conservation and Restoration of the 20th Century, in the Mediterranean Context, at the Gates of the New Century. Suitability of need for redefinition?

Abstract

In this article we will analyze the principal criteria that have prevailed and determined the interventions in conservation and restoration in the course of the 20th century, many of which continue being widely upheld nowadays. In general, the majority of these criteria focused on the historical-artistic object, making its consistency and physical support the determining factor in the process of intervention. is gives preeminence to values such as ü, authenticity and objectivity that traditionally have guided the process of intervention in conservation and restoration. Nevertheless, the current consideration of multiple factors, which intervene in the process of preservation and patrimonial, calls for a review of these traditional criteria in order to evaluate their suitability in our own time. From our consideration, the actions taken in conservation and restoration are inseparable nowadays. On the one hand, there is a greater recognition of the symbolic, expressive and communicative factor in cultural property and, on the other, the consequent need to consider the di erent social agents involved in this process. These agents intervene in this dialogue referring to cultural property and cannot be ignored by the specialists concerned.