Restoration'S Function In Mass Culture: A Critique To Luz Renaciente. Light Reborn. Restored Images

This is a review of Luz Renaciente. Imgenes Restauradas (Light reborn. Restored images), a museum exhibition presented in the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso from May to September, 2013. The critique discusses issues both about the dissemination of conservation-restoration of works of art from the Viceregal period as well as regarding the processes involved in restoring easel paintings, in order to emphasize the analysis of the disciplinary notion of restoration that was implicit in the exhibition.