Intervenția de restaurare - un concept modern?
The restoration intervention – a modern concept?

Summary/Abstract: The article approaches the theoretical aspects of the conservation-restoration concept, narrating at length its evolution in Europe and briefly in Romania. The important role of the architects is emphasized in defining the field and later on the art historians. Ultimately, the article draws attentions to the fact that the restorers did not actually participate in defining the concept theoretically, although they have always had an intimate closeness to the object of art and they could have brought a different perspective of the concept rather than other specialists. However, we can say that at present, the contemporary theory that emerged in the western countries, but less in the Romanian public space, is defined by the restorer and presents alternatives to Brandi’s classical theories, without dismissing them. Also, the article brings forward some of the questions arisen by one of the contemporary theoreticians, the restorer Salvador Muñoz Viñas. He starts from the notion of restoration theory which contrasts the practice, arguing the reconsideration of the reversibility principle and the possibilities of the degradation phenomenon of an object of art. Another less discussed aspect in the field is the fact that many times in restoration a new philosophical system may be produced in an attempt to justify the authenticity of the works of art, this being made and created by the restorer.

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