Restoration - The Arts

The Arts

  • Restoration style
  • Art restoration, a process that attempts to return the work of art to some previous state
  • Painting restoration, restoring old or damaged paintings back to their (near-)original state

Literature of the English Restoration period (1660 to 1700).

  • Restoration literature
  • Restoration comedy

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