by Jon Lackman | 3 January 2007 | Conservation
From The New York Times: “Craig Hugh Smyth, an art historian who drew attention to the importance of conservation and the recovery of purloined art and cultural objects, died on Dec. 22 … Mr. Smyth led the first academic program in conservation in the United States … He wrote many scholarly articles and books, including, ‘Mannerism and Maniera’ and ‘Repatriation of Art From the Collecting Point in Munich After World War II.’ Mr. Smyth was … was the director of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence. He was also chairman of the advisory committee of the J. Paul Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities.”
