A Review of Wall Painting Conservation Theories in Europe

Retouching of wall paintings has been the important matter in theory and practice. Some of the real problems are exact knowing of retouching methods and right choosing them in appropriate with each case. By reason of observing confusion in field of theory and need to highlight the connection between theory and practice, aim of this paper is to review these viewpoints and to extract main regulation in choosing good approach; thus it wants to answer these questions: “what issues are bases of retouching work? And, what ranges are domains of these studying?”In response process going through a descriptive approach, are searched references in this field to gain basic terms at the start; then by help from personal experiences, with a qualitative analysis can gain final results that are “knowing principles to face wall paintings and choosing the best method.”