Dürer in duplicate

While looking through my blogs and articles an unusual thing happened today, two articles on Albrecht Dürer, from two institutions on one work. 

The British Museum has just moved their Triumphal Arch to a new exhibition after removing the glass and frame. Conservator, Joanna Kosek, blogs on the process which took all night with help from handlers, exhibition designers, curators and the National Gallery's large lifting frame. An insight into how complicated moving art can be. 

Meanwhile in the National Gallery of Denmark a major project to conserve their version of Triumphal Arch is underway. They call it The Arch of Maximilian I, 1515. Rolled up and stored for years, they are allowing visitors to watch conservation on the 3m x 3.5m woodcut print.

Beyond the alternate names, I find the coincidence and presentations fascinating. The Danes have called their event Dürer under the knife! with focus on the science to conserve and interpretation of its symbols accompanied with a wonderful digitised version. You can see the crowned eagle watermark and really explore the visual here.

The Brits' title is Dürer's paper triumph, the arch of the Emperor Maximilian providing contextual reasons for such a masterpiece, who Maximilian was and accompanying the work with other work from Maximilian's time.  

These approaches show scope of how to look at an object and the myriad of ways to present to audiences, I do hope both of them are aware of each others' work and maybe share some of their experiences in this new phase in the Triumphal Arch/The Arch of Maximilian I provenance.