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A Closer Look at September’s © University of Applied Arts , Stefan Olah 2011 Issue 30, June 2012 now for the IIC 2012 IIC Vienna Congress Congress! For a full list of papers and We hope that by now you will have fruitful platform for discussion! posters and the social and gathered all the information and booked Just to give you a taster of what’s to your tickets for Vienna to join us for the come, following is a short description of technical programmes, 2012 IIC Congress taking place this the rich programme the Congress Saal I in the anatomical wax , please see page 11 autumn. The IIC Congress has become organisers have put together. Josephinum, Vienna an indispensable forum for the international conservation community Conservators Talk To continue beyond the Congress itself. and we hope this year it will be as Conservators! Details of the specially inspiring and relevant as ever. With this theme, the Congress Wednesday, September 12, morning – arranged visits and the Professionals have the opportunity to organisers have set up an exciting and Backstage tours: VIENNA bring their perspective to a branch of exclusive excursion programme in Excited about learning more on the Round Table can be found conservation that has often seen experts Vienna and in nearby places of interest. world-famous Viennese artists Otto in “Conservators talk to arguing over the very nature of The programme will allow participants Wagner and Gustav Klimt, or do you conservators.” decorative art. to see behind the scenes, interact with prefer to get exclusive insights into Whatever your views on the topic we conservation experts and start Viennese Collections? The Wednesday Full details on page 1–2 are sure that the IIC Congress will be a discussions that should hopefully morning tours include unique venues

© Franz Gruber such as the Kirche am Steinhof, the Postsparkasse, the Secession house, and the . The programme will also Check out details of new include the Kunsthistorisches , membership packages on the Austrian National Library with its page 10 impressive State Hall, as well as rarely available opportunities to visit the Josephinum Vienna, with its anatomical Budapest seen from the Danube River wax-collection, the Red Salon with its  www.iiconservation.org IIC JUNE 2012:Layout 1 12/6/12 19:39 Page 2

News in Conservation No. 30, June 2012 2 © F © F r r anz Gruber Vienna Congress by Wolfgang Huber, anz Gruber News in Conservation is published by The Head of Collections, will highlight these International Institute for Conservation of facets and displays the abbey’s treasures Historic and Artistic Works such as the Romanesque abbey church, 3, Birdcage Walk, the Gothic cloister with its Chapel of St. London, SW1H 3JJ, UK Leopold, the world-famous Verdun Telephone +44 (0)20 7799 5500 Fax +44 (0)20 7799 4961 Altar with its 51 magni cent enamel www.iiconservation.org The Abbey of Klosterneuburg plaques and the impressive Imperial ISSN 1995-2635 Apartments of Charles VI. Editor tapestries and the Sisi Museum. e e IIC Round Table event will also The historic city of Barbara Borghese contemporary art and design collection be held at the Abbey just aer the tours [email protected] from the Museum of Applied Arts in a programme, so make sure you do not guided tour through their attractive Advertising battle-tower from WW II, the Hallstatt miss what promises to be a full and home towns – the choice is between one Graham Voce, IIC textiles in the Natural History Museum, impressive day! and two-days city trips. Petr Justa will [email protected] the Vienna States , and the take you to the world heritage cities of Format Design Vienna Jewish Cemetery in Währing Saturday and Sunday, September 15 Telc and Prague, while Katarína Kosová Webb & Webb Design Limited will also be on the menu. and 16 – Post-congress tours: will go with you on a boat trip to www.webbandwebb.co.uk Conservation experts will lead the PRAGUE, BUDAPEST, BRATISLAVA Bratislava. Márta Kissné-Bendefy will Production Design visits sharing information and and the DANUBE VALLEY guide participants to places of interests Malcolm Gillespie exchanging ideas. And thanks to Vienna is geographically well-placed in Budapest and in Gödöllö. Finally [email protected] Martina Griesser-Stermscheg’s and her to form the base to visit its neighbouring there is also an Austrian option guided Printing colleagues’ eorts, most of these tours cities. Gabriela Krist, member of the IIC by Andreas Lehne: participants will get L&S Printing Company Limited will be free of charge. Organising Committee, has approached the opportunity to nish the Congress www.ls-printing.com her colleagues in Czech Republic, week on a trip to the countryside, Deadlines for next issue (August 2012) Wednesday, September 12, aernoon – Slovakia, and Hungary to organize a visiting the World Heritage cultural Editorial: 1 July 2012

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Editorial News in Brief © Ulrich Waack CC Attribution 3.0 unported Welcome to the June issue of NiC, full of UNESCO Appeals for the important information for IIC members Protection of Timbuktu’s and non-members. At the time of going Documentary Heritage to press, the Organising Committee of UNESCO Director-General Irina the IIC Vienna Congress is feverishly Bokova voiced alarm over the safety of working on the last touches to the Timbuktu’s invaluable , programme; you will find the following reports that rebels have looted preliminary details of the technical as centres containing thousands of ancient well as the social events in this issue. and documents that bear Many of you will know about the IIC testimony to the city’s extraordinary Opportunities Fund to which some of history. The Director-General appealed you have generously donated; in this to all relevant authorities, including issue we want to let you know of the Mali’s warring factions, neighbouring impact your contribution is making! governments, Interpol, customs organi- NiC has interviewed Stefan Belishki sations, the art market and collectors, to from the Department of Conservation be on the alert against any attempt to Palmyra, Syria of the Academy of Arts in Sofia, traffic items stolen from these centres. Bulgaria. The Academy is a recipient of The Director-General has contacted and its neighbouring countries are Looting and Destruction the Opportunities Fund and NiC was national authorities in countries sharing bound by the Convention, the only Continues in Syria delighted to hear that the award makes a borders with Mali to remind them of international instrument focused Syria’s turmoil is threatening the country’s difference for their professional their obligations under the provisions of exclusively on the fight against the illicit rich archaeological heritage. Some of the development, giving them better access the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the trafficking of cultural property. country’s most important heritage sites to the international conservation Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Mali is also bound by the 1954 Hague have been damaged or destroyed by the network that IIC created. Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Convention for the Protection of continuing battles between regime We are very excited at the Ownership of Cultural Property. Mali Cultural Property in the Event of Armed forces and rebels. Reports show some

announcement that the IIC Croatian ©Upyernoz, CC Attribution 3.0 unported Conflict. sites being turned into military bases, Group now has a dedicated website. Our UNESCO acts as the secretariat for raising preservation advocates and friends will continue to share their news The Hague Convention and its two archaeologists’ fears of further damage. and activities through NiC and the IIC Protocols as well as the 1970 Looting of artefacts from excavations website, in English. Convention. The Organization stands and has also increased. One final note – please renew your ready to provide technical assistance to Recent online footage of fighting and membership; instructions and rates on Mali and its neighbouring countries in local media reports showed how regime page 10! the application of these international forces carried out assaults and moved Centre de Recherches Historiques Ahmed treaties. tanks into existing fortified heritage Barbara Borghese Editor Baba, recently attacked by looters Source: UNESCO Media Services sites. Government forces have also used IIC JUNE 2012:Layout 1 12/6/12 19:39 Page 4

News in Conservation No. 30, June 2012 4 Copyright National Gallery of Art, of Art, WashingtonCopyright National Gallery investigation of medieval artworks. the latter is hoped to offer the content in Using near-infrared spectroscopy, a English eventually. leaf from a 15th century illuminated Ksenija Škarić, president of the IIC – manuscript by Lorenzo Monaco was Croatian Group, says that the reason for analyzed, producing a map of the launching the website was to offer a pigment binders used by the artist. The point of access to relevant and insights gained through the study will potentially interesting information better inform conservators on possible related to cultural heritage preservation. strategies and will also give art “The most important thing was to historians new insights into the define the audience,” explains Mrs materials and methods used by artists. Škarić. “We agreed that the website is of The instrument used was developed by a local significance and intended for the team lead by John Delaney, senior professional community in Croatia and imaging scientist at the National Gallery other countries of this language area. We of Art in Washington, DC. try to publish all information that might The team discovered that the painter interest heritage professionals, and not of this manuscript had an idiosyncratic just report on the activities of the group.” style using pigment binders normally At present, the website has five major associated with frescoes. The categories; general information about development of the technique is the IIC – Croatian Group, as well as the important as it will allow researchers to records of all meetings, can be found on study binders and pigments from small the site. Group's activities, such as the areas of a work of art, without the need visits to conservation studios in for destructive sampling. In addition the neighboring countries, public lectures technique works with small amounts of and other events, are presented in the light, a critical factor that can otherwise form of short reports. Important limit the study of illuminated documents relating to conservation- manuscripts. restoration profession, some of which Source: National Gallery of Art, have been translated to Croatian, are Lorenzo Monaco, Praying Prophet, 1410/1413, miniature on vellum, National Gallery of Washington also available. Art, Washington, Rosenwald Collection Many members of the IIC – Croatian IIC – Croatian Group Launches Group contributed to website's content. ancient ruins in the oasis city of Palmyra Near-infrared Spectroscopy Website The website was designed by Orest to set up a military base. The nearly Illuminates Medieval Art IIC – Croatian Group launched its Šuman, Igor Šuljić acts as the 2,000-year-old ruins used to be one of A team of scientists based in the US and website in March. Two domains have administrator, while Ksenija Škarić edits the biggest tourist attraction with Italy, have successfully used a technique been registered, www.iic- the content. towering Roman colonnades and a developed for geophysical remote hrvatskagrupa.hr and www.iiccro.org. temple dedicated to the god Baal. sensing and applied it to the Currently, they are both in Croatian, but  IIC JUNE 2012:Layout 1 12/6/12 19:39 Page 5

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Department of Conservation at the National Sofia Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria 

NiC in conversation with Stefan Belishki Conservator-Restorers in Bulgaria, President of ICOMOS-Bulgaria and member of ICOM (ICOM-CC). The Department of Conservation at the National Stefan believes that IIC congresses are amongst the Academy of Arts in Sofia was established in 1973 and most important professional and scientific forums. He since then its main focus is education on paintings took part in three of them at the Istanbul Congress in and on the development of our programme. So for our and wall paintings conservation. This is a five-year 2010 presented a poster. Academy and for me personally, IIC is one of the undergraduate-graduate course, and after its completion international professional pillars we have always been students obtain an MA degree. The course is quite 1 – What does the IIC membership means for you relying on for increasing our professional standards. small, with only six to eight students accepted every and your institution? Membership of IIC has a long history for our year. Several foreign students, mainly from IIC membership is a network, it is the whole range Academy and for our Conservation Department in neighbouring countries (Greece, Serbia, Croatia and of its publications, and it is a scientific forum. As an particular. Most often my colleagues refer to IIC for its Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) have also Academic institution all of these aspects influence us, publications. In our library one can trace the issues of been enrolled in it. This is the only officially accredited on our professional development, on the way we Studies in Conservation back to 1970’s. They have course on conservation in Bulgaria to date. The increase our knowledge, on the work with students always been an important source for professional

Department plans to introduce two new MA Stefan Belishki. information for our students and the teaching staff at programmes: Conservation of Paper, Books and our department. The Journal (Studies in Conservation) Photographs and Conservation of Stone, Ceramics and is a standard for reference of scientific publications in Metal. The Academy has contact with the European the field of conservation. Network for Conservation-Restoration Education We started taking part in IIC Congresses rather late. (ENCoRE), but is not member of the Organisation As far as I know the first attendance of our Academy to yet. The Department is active on Erasmus exchange IIC Congress was in 2006 in Munich, where I was able programme too. The insufficient funding in the recent to take part thanks to a support given by the Getty decade reflected on the level of equipment and Grant. Then in 2010 in Istanbul I presented a poster facilities maintenance. The teaching staff put serious and hope to be able to contribute the same way in efforts into compensating this problem by taking part Vienna, though reflecting on a very different subject. in joined projects with other institutions. IIC Congresses are real places for networking and I’m Along with his teaching in the Academy, Stefan very happy to be able to be part of them. Belishki devotes significant amount of his time to With the fall of the “Iron curtain” our country faced volunteer work: he is chairman of the Association of Canvas Painting Studio significant financial difficulties and there was a risk of IIC JUNE 2012:Layout 1 12/6/12 19:39 Page 6

News in Conservation No. 30, June 2012 6 Stefan Belishki. Stefan Belishki. Stefan Belishki. many volumes of the Congress proceedings. They met immediate interest both amongst the students and the professors. To some of these proceedings we have access for the first time and it was really a generous gesture. Benefits are not only access to publications; being a recipient of the Opportunities Fund is in a way a stimulus for taking part in the IIC Congresses. Besides, taking part in a congress means represent a chance for contribution to the professional society and to our discipline in general. So I see it as two-way process.

3 – As you know the Opportunities Fund is made possible thanks to donations from other IIC In-situ practice on wall paintings members. How is your institution planning to share some of the benefits with the worldwide conservation discontinue our membership of IIC. With the help of community? our British colleague Theo Sturge, who made personal I think one of the ways to share the benefits is donations for several years, the membership of our through a more active contribution on our part to the Academy still continues. Now we are grateful for the IIC scientific program – to its publications and chance to benefit from the Opportunities Fund, which congresses. On the other hand there is something not in my view is also of vital importance for us. I hope so measurable, and this is the effect of the increased however, our Academy will be able to become more professionalism, shared in joined international financially independent soon. projects and other practical activities. It is much easier to talk about sharing the benefits 2 – As a recipient of the Opportunities Fund, what with the professional community within Bulgaria. are the immediate benefits for your institution? Many of the publications we keep in the Academy are The most visible and easily recognizable benefit is open for access to the colleagues working in other the very fact that we can still be part of the big museums. They know that coming to our department Working in the wall painting studio network, of the big professional society that is IIC. they will find the issues of Studies in Conservation e.g. One can also see the benefit of receiving IIC I hope this way they will become more active in towards better dissemination of the professional publications. Everybody is used to the arrival of sharing their knowledge and hopefully some of them information and a step towards a more inclusive policy. Studies in Conservation, where every three months we will become members of IIC. We recently discussed can discover new achievements and interesting with colleagues from the IIC Council an idea, which I 4 – We often hear of the importance of advocacy in discussions and the email alerting us of the like very much: to translate part of the summaries of conservation; what do you think are the best ways to publication of the new issue of News in Conservation. the articles in Studies in Conservation in Bulgarian. I connect and share? There is also special attention to the Congresses’ talked about this with some students of mine and they Advocacy in conservation is part of the new proceedings. IIC recently donated to our department reacted very positively. It will be a very good step mentality of the professional conservators, who used IIC JUNE 2012:Layout 1 12/6/12 19:39 Page 7

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The oldest building of the Academy

they have direct contacts with the official authorities in-situ.

Biography Stefan Belishki has been involved in heritage conservation since 1983. He began work as a conservation-technician at the National Institute for the Monuments of Culture, where developed initial practical knowledge. In 1992 he graduated magna cum laude with his master's degree from the Conservation Department of the National Academy of Art in Sofia. Wall painting studio For the next two years he gained experience as freelance practitioner and took part in joined projects. In 1995 Stefan to stay behind the scenes quiet and invisible. Indeed, scientific symposia etc., but to be successful I think it started his full time teaching in the Department of our work on the cultural heritage is supposed to be is important also to hear the voice of all stakeholders Conservation of the Academy. His time is dedicated to invisible, but it doesn’t prevent us from having a in the process of conservation. Various mechanisms working with students, teaching both practical and proactive position in policy making with regard to the can be used, amongst them the use of modern media, theoretical classes in paintings and wall paintings conservation of cultural heritage. There are various including social networks on the Internet like conservation; and managing in-situ practice in wall instruments to connect and share in this respect. Big Facebook. In my observation IIC has been very paintings. In the process of his professional development professional organisations like IIC, ICOMOS or successful in this direction. Stefan was enrolled in several workshops and courses, ICOM can express strongly their professional voice. On the other hand local organisations, even at including ICCROM course Sharing Conservation Decisions On the international level advocacy may be expressed national level, embracing the IIC ideas, can have an 2004. with doctrinal texts, declarations, organisation of important impact on the decision making process as  IIC JUNE 2012:Layout 1 12/6/12 19:39 Page 8

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Change or damage? Defining damage for of Naomi Luxford courtesy Image veneer and marquetry collections

Naomi Luxford subjected to wider and rapid fluctuations to ‘Change or damage?’ is a three year understand the impact. However non-destructive monitoring in real time of historic objects is also being post-doctoral research project used to determine changes to collections caused by studying changes to veneer and the display environment. For the monitoring equipment, it is important to determine when normal marquetry furniture in historic houses. changes become damage in order to assess the impact of the display environment. If the collection has The hygroscopic nature of wood means it seasonally changed, but not been damaged by the continually responds to relative humidity (RH) current display environment, 30% RH may be the fluctuations. Movement in response to moisture correct point at which to introduce additional changes is thought to lead to damage and is one of the humidifiers. The monitoring results from both the reasons why a stable environment, often controlled historic collection study and the laboratory testing will using air conditioning, is commonly used to display be combined to recommend the most suitable display veneer and marquetry furniture collections. However environment. within historic houses in the UK, air conditioning is To discuss what the term damage means for veneer rarely found and installing it would significantly alter and marquetry furniture collections, a seminar was the historic building fabric and its appearance. Due to organised in June 2011. This brought together a group the limited environmental control possible within of conservators, , historians, scientists, historic houses, wide fluctuations and very low RH collections managers and other heritage professionals levels during winter heating periods can be common. working in areas related to furniture or on similar To mitigate the risk of low RH levels in winter and research. For example in figure 1, cracks within the provide more stable RH levels, additional portable marquetry sections can be seen along with lost humidifiers can be used. Currently at Kenwood sections and with the raking light the lifting areas House1 (the case study site) when the RH drops below become clearer. Terms like crack, loss and lift can 30% additional humidifiers are installed within often be used to mean damage but in some cases historic rooms to prevent damage. However there is a lifting can just be a seasonal response to moisture lack of understanding about how the furniture changes. The seminar used presentations, activities responds and whether 30% RH is the right point at and discussion to determine the critical features that which to do this; should it actually be 45% RH or even define damage. These ideas have informed my Figure 1. Raking light highlights the lifting and missing 20% RH? The research has involved studying definition of damage that will be utilised as a turning areas of the shell motif on a card table at Kenwood House, laboratory test pieces of marquetry which were point marking when change becomes damage. Due to English Heritage IIC JUNE 2012:Layout 1 12/6/12 19:39 Page 9

News in Conservation No. 30, June 2012 9 Image courtesy of Naomi Luxford courtesy Image and opinions on the processes that are used to decide and determine whether objects are damaged as much as whether the definition is correct. Using this feedback alongside other currently ongoing work, the damage definition will be reassessed towards the end of the research project. The project is funded by the AHRC/EPSRC Science and Heritage Programme.

1 The research is being undertaken in collaboration with English Heritage who are providing the case study site, Kenwood House. Located in North London, it contains a number of pieces of veneer and marquetry furniture. (http://www.english- heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/kenwood-house/)

Biography Naomi Luxford is currently a post-doctoral research fellow in the UCL Centre for Sustainable Heritage, working on a three year project, ‘Change or Damage?’ Effect of Climate on Decorative Furniture Surfaces in Historic Properties, funded by the AHRC/EPSRC Science and Heritage Programme. She obtained her PhD from the Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton, having previously completed an MA in Conservation from the RCA/V&A programme and an MSci in Chemistry from the University of Bristol.

Figure 2. Previous damage including large cracks in veneer are often observed, these and missing sections can severly affect the visual coherence of the designs, for example this vase on a commode at Kenwood House, English Heritage.

the tasks undertaken at the seminar, the number of hangeordamage/what-is-damage). attendees was limited, however the information and I would really like to gather a wide range of findings, including my definition of damage are now opinion, so please visit the site and have your say, available on the project website including whether you agree (or not) with the  (http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/graduate/csh/research/c definition. I would especially like to hear observations IIC JUNE 2012:Layout 1 12/6/12 19:39 Page 10

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Please note that this is a provisional Thursday, 13 September 2012 Matthijs de Keijzer, Maarten van Ursula Haller, Stephanie Hilden and programme and that titles may be • 09.00 Presentations Session 4 Bommel, Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer, Karin Krüger updated. • 11.00 Poster Viewing Session Regina Knaller and Edith Oberhumer “The Conservation and Mounting of Very • 12.30 Lunch “Indigo Carmine: Behaviour of a Large Painted Wall-Hangings” Provisional Technical • 13.00 Meeting of Student Delegates Problematic Blue Dye” Chandra L. Reedy Programme • 13.00 Meeting of IIC Regional Group “Image Analysis-Aided Light Microscopy Representatives Eva Rydlová and Ivana Kopecká of Glazed Ceramics: Identifying Monday, 10 September 2012 • 14.00 Presentations Session 5 “Zwischengoldglas: Technology of Technological Innovation and Style” • 08.30 Registration opens, • 17.30 End Production, Material Analyses and Hörsaalzentrum, new Campus of the • 19.00 Grand Dinner at Vienna Conservation” Kasi Albert University of Vienna Rathaus – City Hall “Ceramic Rivet Repair: History, • 09.30 Refreshments Yannick Chastang Technology and Conservation • 11.00 Opening Ceremony Friday, 14 September 2012 “The Conservation of Two Pietre Dure Approaches” • 11.45 Forbes Prize Lecture • 09.00 Presentations Session 6 and Gilt- Mounted Cabinets • 12.30 Lunch • 12.30 Lunch Made by Domenico Cucci” Heather Tetley • 13.00 Meeting of Grant Recipients • 14.00 Presentations Session 7 “Underfoot and Overlooked: • 14.00 Presentations Session 1 • 16.30 Keck Award Presentation Brenna Campbell, Élodie Lévèque, and Conservation Treatment of 18th and 19th • 17.30 End • Honorary Fellow Presentations Erin Jue century British Carpets in Historic • 18.30 Opening Reception at the KHM • Announcement of 2014 Venue “Marcel Duchamp’s Boîtes-en-Valise: houses” Vienna • 17.30 End of Technical Programme Collaboration and Conservation” • 18.30 Farewell Reception at the MAK Marta Toth Tuesday, 11 September 2012 Museum of Applied Arts / Jean-Philippe Echard, Christine Laloue, “Lessons Learned on the Conservation of • 09.00 Presentations Session 2 Contemporary ArtPapers and posters Isabelle Chochod and Daniele Pipitone Textiles with Metal Threads in the • 12.30 Lunch “Characterisation and Conservation of Esterházy Collection” • 12.45 IIC Fellowship Meeting Papers – IIC Vienna Congress the Decorative Paint on 17th-century • 14.00 Presentations Session 3 French and Flemish Harpsichord Francesca Casadio, Anikó Bezur, Kelly • 17.30 End Kathryn (Kate) Gill Soundboards” Domoney, Katherine Eremin, Lynn Lee, • Free evening “Images Can Speak Louder Than Words: Jennifer L. Mass, Andrew Shortland and Communicating Conservation Effectively” Katy Sanders, Lynne Harrison, Nicholas Zumbulyadis Wednesday, 12 September 2012 Catherine Higgitt and Christina Young “Flames of Desire: X-ray Fluorescence • 09.00 “Backstage Tours” in Vienna Aviva Burnstock, Christine Sitwell, “Purely Decorative? Technical Analysis of Spectroscopy for the Analysis of • 14.00 Excursion to the Klosterneuburg Catherine Daunt and Sarah Freeman a Fifteenth-century Northern European Decorations” Abbey “A Room Transposed: a Technical and Parade Shield” • 17.00 Round Table Event at Historical Study of the King's Room, Jennifer L. Mass and Catherine R. Klosterneuburg Westwood Manor, Wiltshire, UK” Stephen P. Koob and Linda Gué, Matsen • 19.00 Reception at Klosterneuburg “The Conservation of Two Baccarat “Understanding Hollow Wares of Crystal Torchères at the Shangri La Doris the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries: Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, is There a Role for X-ray Fluorescence?” Honolulu, Hawaii” IIC JUNE 2012:Layout 1 12/6/12 19:39 Page 12

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Tim Bechthold and Julia Reischl Eva Putzgruber, Marco Verità, Katharina Dinah Eastop, Anna E. Bülow, Agnes W. Katy Lithgow, Nicky Boden, Michelle “Kitchen Stories: Cuisine Atelier Le Uhlir, Bernadette Frühmann, Martina Brokerhof Hill, Richard Lithgow, Kate Measures Corbusier, Type 1” Grießer, Gabriela Krist “Design, Digitisation, Discovery: “A ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Experience: “Scientific Investigation and Study of the Enhancing Collection Quality “ 'Conservation in Action' for Thornhill’s Erika Gohde Sandbakken and Eva Sixteenth Century Glass Jewellery Wall Paintings at Hanbury Hall, Storevik Tveit Collection of Archduke Ferdinand II” Roger Griffith, Margo Delidow, Chris Worcestershire, UK “ “Edvard Munch’s Monumental Sketches McGlinchey (1909–1916) for the Aula of Oslo Joseph Godla “Peeling Back the Layers: Eileen Gray’s Lori Wong, Stephen Rickerby, Amarilli University, Norway: Conservation Issues “Re-evaluation of French Renaissance Brick Screens” Rava, Alan Phenix, Joy Mazurek, Rasha and Treatments” Furniture at the Frick Collection, New Kamel York:, USA” Sarah Staniforth and Helen Lloyd “Examination of the Wall Paintings in Sandra Smith, Alan Derbyshire and “Use it or Lose it: the Opportunities and Tutankhamen’s Tomb: Inconsistencies in Victoria Oakley Rainer W. Richter and Christian Challenges of Bringing Historic Places to Original Technology” “Connoisseurship, Aesthetics and Ethics: Neelmeijer Life” Factors Influencing the Conservation of “The Waldenburg Beakers and Johann Andrea Várfalvi and Katalin E. Nagy the Decorative Arts” Kunckel: Analytical and Technological Ursula Baumer, Irene Fiedler, Simone “When Spain Dictated Fashion: a Study of Four Corner-cut Coloured Bretz, Hans-Jörg Ranz and Patrick Hungarian Lady's Richly Decorated Tatjana Bayerová, Václav Pitthard, Glasses” Dietemann Garment of Late16th- to Early 17- Martina Griesser, Martina Griesser- “Decorative Reverse-painted Glass Century Date” Stermscheg Karin Hermerén and Henrik Orrje Objects from the Fourteenth to Twentieth “Metal Sarcophagi of the Habsburg “Exposed and Unseen: Management of Centuries: an Overview of the Binding Whalley, Joanna , Church of the Capuchin Public Immovable Art” Media” “Faded Glory: Gemstone Simulants and Friars, in Vienna, : Analysis of Enhancements” Surface Coatings” Helfenstein, Eva; Eremin, Katherine; Ferenc Mihály and Márta Guttmann Drayman-Weisser, Terry; Gates, Glenn; “The Umling Painter-Carpenter Posters Ulrike Brichzin and Christoph Herm Klausmeyer, Philip; Newman, Richard; Workshop in Transylvania” Claudia Bachlechner, Gabriela Krist and “Investigation and Conservation of a Selvius DeRoo, Cathy; Freestone, Ian Martin Kapferer, Panoramic Wall Paper Les Vues du Brésil ”Technical Examination of Enamels from Petr Justa, Tatjana Bayerová and Karol Conservation of Holy Sepulchres and from 1829” the Botkin Collection” Bayer Lenten veils in Tyrol “A New Look at the Figure of St Anne-Marie Deisser and Lolan Sipan Elizabeth Woolley, Jilleen Nadolny and Wenceslas from the St Vitus Cathedral, Wendy Baker, “Decorative Art or Art Practice? The Lisa Shekede Prague, Czech Republic” Treatment of efflorescent salts on Conservation of Textiles in the Kurdish “Tin on Thirteenth-Century Cypriot twentieth-century frescoes in the Autonomous Region of Iraq” Wall Painting: Technology and Renée Riedler, Ellen Pearlstein and Parliamentary Precinct, Ottawa, Canada Conservation” Molly Gleeson “Featherwork: Beyond Decorative” Stefan Belishki, Vandalism or artistic expression: street art on the Monument to the Soviet Army, Sofia, Bulgaria IIC JUNE 2012:Layout 1 12/6/12 19:39 Page 13

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Ana Bidarra, Pedro Antunes, Teresa Abdelrazek Elnaggar, Paul Fitzsimons, Savina Gianoli, Giovanna Fulgoni, Filiz Kuvvetli, Ayşe Aldemir Kilercik, Desterro, João Coroado and Fernando Austin Nevin, Iacopo Osticioli, Mona Francesca Ghizzoni, Sabrina Salvatori Çinar Öncel, Alpay Taralp and Nurçin Rocha, Ali and Ken Watkins, and Johannes Weber, Kural Özgörüş, Conservation of a Portugese Renaissance Laser cleaning trials on a gilded and The Roman wall paintings of Terrace Analysis of pigments on a nineteenth- limestone altarpiece by João de Ruão polychromed thirteenth-century ceiling House 2 in Ephesos, Turkey century calligrapher’s box using nanosecond and picosecond lasers Emma Chan, Anna Guzowska, Wai-Sum (Angela) Liu, Conservation of the 1325 Evangeliar of Katherine Eremin, Jessica Chloros, Artefacts attributed to Martin Schnell in Traditional Chinese mounting styles and Robert Mason, Angela Chang, Henry the Wilanow collection, Poland: presentation techniques of scrolls Lie, Mary McWilliams, Anthony Sigel multidisciplinary research Roland Chan and Belinda T. K. and Aysin Yoltar, Valentina Ljubic and Wolfgang Kautek, Ramnauth, Multidisciplinary approaches to Arlen Heginbotham, Heinrich Piening, A perfect copy: analysis of the earliest Preservation of unique rare books using understanding ceramics from Islamic Clara Von Engelhardt, Cecily Grzywacz, electrotype artefacts simple measures in Carnegie Library, lands Gary Hughes and Michael Smith, Mauritius Revelations of color in the marquetry of J. Michael Melcher, Wilfried Vetter, Shuya Andrea Fischer, Astrid van Giffen and F. Oeben Wei, Beate Murr and Manfred Schreiner, Angela Cheung, Alice Tsang and Louise Gerhard Eggert, Klimt cartoons for the Mosaic Frieze in Sam, Glass-Induced Metal Corrosion on Romana Jagić, Siniša Cvetković and the Dining Hall of Stoclet House, Brussels, Glittering decorative art: reflective Museum Exhibits (GIMME project) Srebrenka Bogović, Belgium Cantonese opera costumes Salon of the Swiss House, Zagreb, Croatia David Frank and Jarmila Frankova, Martina Raedel, Štěpánka Chlumská, Miroslava Novotná Conservation of oversize Chinese Richard. L. Kerschner and Nancie Historic mosaics: composition and and Radka Šefců, paintings on silk Ravenel, deterioration Comparison of tin relief applied to the Conservation of a 1926 Artizan A2 Rakovník and Rokycany altarpiece Vanessa Frieden, Sonja Radujkovic, Military Band Carousel Organ Thomas Roby, Leslie Friedman, Livia paintings, Bohemia Dunja Rütt and Anette Schulz, Alberti, Cristina Caldi, Ermanno From Babylon to Berlin: conservation Yuko Kita, Gonzalo J. Fructuoso Carbonara and Moheddine Chaouali, Daniela Coelho and Sandra Saraiva, history and ongoing maintenance of the Hernández, Matsui Toshiya, Luis Torres Mosaic conservation planning and Portuguese painted religious furniture of Ishtar Gate, the Processional Way and Montes and Manuel Reyes García, implementation at the site of Bulla Regia, the eighteenth century Throne Room façade Eighteenth-century exterior decorative Tunisia lime plaster in Mexico City, Mexico Vera De La Cruz Baltazar and Mayra Tine Frøysaker, Karen Mengshoel and Marie Louise Sauerberg, Lara Broecke, Elitania Galan Villa, Hanne Moltubakk Kempton, Tatiana Kousoulou, Ray Marchant and Alison Stock, Can graffiti be seen as a decorative art Edvard Munch’s Aula frieze: conservation Gold embroidery on Greek Orthodox Coronation Chair: the history of a nation when its canvas is a historic wall? and change in public attitudes textiles: techniques and conservation

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Cynthia Schwarz, H Siddons Mowbray Dimitris Tsipotas and Christoforos Call for papers Conferences/Seminars and the Huntington Commission: Michalaros, International Conference EuroMed 2012 Society for the Preservation of Natural understanding and interpretation of a 3D ‘digital restoration’ of lost Greek October 29–November 3, History Collections (SPNHC): 27th Annual pioneer of the American Mural furniture, using surviving archaeological Limassol, Cyprus, Greece Meeting on Emerging Technology and Movement artefacts Submissions for the joint event are completely Innovation in Natural History Collections electronic, and both the paper and all Management supplementary material must be submitted 11–16 June, 2012 Tahereh Shisheh Bori, Hamid Indra Tuna and Indra Saulesleja, through the on-line submission website. New Haven, Connecticut, USA Farahmand Boroujeni and Abbas Abede Latvian headdresses: analysis and For information concerning style and format of For more information about this event please visit: Isfahani, conservation all submissions, please refer to: www.spnhc.org Technical study of Persian mural painting http://www.euromed2012.eu/index.php/paper- or email materials in three Ikhanid monuments, Astrid van Giffen and Florian Knothe, submission/ [email protected] Yazd, Iran Chinese pictorial screens: an investigation Deadline for submission is 28/06/2012 Heritage 2012 : 3rd International Conference of nineteenth-century glass cane panels Conservation-Restoration and on Heritage and Sustainable Development Ksenija Škarić, Health/Security of people and the 19–22 June, 2012 The conservation of the Gothic choir Quanyu Wang and Maickel van environment Porto, June 2013 For further information about this event please stalls, Zadar Cathedral, Dalmatia Bellegem, Draguignan-Figanières, France visit: Conservation and scientific studies of Summary’s proposals are expected for www.heritage2012.greenlines-institute.org Kristin Solberg, Edwin Verweij and Geir nineteenth to twentieth century Balkan September 30th, 2012. Preregistrations (free) Or email: Thomas Risåsen, jewellery and information are available at [email protected] Norway’s Constitutional Assembly Hall at www.art-conservation.fr/colloque and rock art: 25 years SIARB Eidsvoll Manor: an Improvized Colour Chinese Heritage Conference III 2012 - 25–29 June, 2012 Scheme of 1814 Porcelain and Glass La Paz, Bolivia 2 November 2012 Bolivian Rock Art Research Society (SIARB); Akiko Takeda, Hideo Akanuma and National Maritime Museum International Federation of Rock Art Nobutaka Tsuchiya, Greenwich, London, UK For further information about this event please Abstracts to be sent by 1 June 2012. For further visit: Analysis of admixed grounds used for information please visit: www.siarbcongress.org medieval Urushi in Japan http://www.artability-art.com/programme-2011/ Or email: or contact Xuhua (Sylvia) Zhan [email protected] Norman H. Tennent, Lisya Bicaci, Nicky [email protected] 25th annual Western Institute Dowsett, Hossein Izadan, Kate van 08–20 June, 2012 Lookeren, James Nobbs, Lina Pak,and Pomona, California, USA Marjke Top, For further information about this event please Porcelain conservation: recent research visit: for optimising the appearance of bonding www.calarchivists.org/WAI and retouching Or email: [email protected]  IIC JUNE 2012:Layout 1 12/6/12 19:39 Page 15

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2nd International Conference on Chemistry Workshops/ Courses Scientific Analysis of Photographs : A Centro del bel libro Ascona for Cultural Heritage Collaborative Workshop in Photograph Via Collegio 6, CH 6612 Ascona, , 09–12 June, 2012 Course on cleaning painted surfaces Conservation Tel: +41 91 791 81 56 Istanbul, Turkey New Methods of Cleaning (Painted) Surfaces Foundation of the American Institute for For further information about this event please For further information about this event please June 11–12, 2012 (lectures) Conservation (FAIC) contact www.cbl-ascona.ch visit: June 13–15, 2012 (optional workshop) 12–15 June, 2012 Cleaning Acrylic Emulsion Paints www.chemch2012.org Amsterdam, Netherlands Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 15–16 May 2012 Or email: by Richard Wolbers, presented by Restauratoren For more information about this event please Institut National du Patrimoine, Departement [email protected] Nederland visit: des Restaurateurs For more information on this event and to http://216.74.55.166/education/take-a-course Saint Denis, France 33rd Congress of the International reserve a place please visit: Committee of History of Art (CIHA) : The Papyrus Conservation Seminar A 2-Day seminar and workshop with Dr. http://www.ahk.nl/reinwardt/zoeken/contact/> Bronwyn Ormsby, Senior Challenge of The Object or http://www.cultureelerfgoed.nl/node/1724> 18–29 June, 2012 15–20 June, 2012 University of Michigan Papyrus Collection at Tate, London Nuremberg, Germany Martos Project: An international workshop Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA For further information on this event and Organised by: Germanisches National Museum on Stone Conservation and For further information about this event please booking please contact: For further information about this event please Urban regeneration write to: [email protected] visit: 20 August–30 September 2012 [email protected] Understanding of the Parchment in Medieval www.ciha2012.de/en/home.html Martos, Andalusia, Spain or contact: Manuscripts or email: For further information about this event and to Prof. Arthur Verhoogt 21–26 May 2012 [email protected] book a place please visit: Acting , University of Michigan Horn, Austria http://www.diadrasis.org/projects/martos/gener Papyrus Collection, 807 Hatcher Graduate Organization: European Research Centre for 7th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic al_description.html Materials Symposium Library South, 913 S. University Avenue Book and Paper Conservation-Restoration 29–31 June, 2012 Training day: Writing and Using a Ann Arbor MI 48109 For further information about this event please Brisbane, Australia Preservation Policy YOuth in COnservation of CUltural Heritage contact www.buchstadt.at Conference organizers: AICCM Book, Paper British Library Preservation Advisory Centre YOCOCU International Course on Wood Conservation and Photographic Materials 11 June 2012 Italian Association of Conservation Scientists Technology (ICCROM) For further information about this event please London, UK 18–20 June, 2012 23 May–29 June 2012 visit: For full programme and booking details, please Antwerpen, Belgium Riksantikvaren, Oslo, Norway http://www.aiccm.org.au/index.php?option=co see: For more information about this event please visit: For more information, visit m_content&view=article&id=1212:7th-book- http://www.bl.uk/blpac/policy.html www.yococu.com/index.php/abstract- www.iccrom.org. paper-and-photographic-materials-symposium Eighteenth International Course on Stone submission MCRI: Applied Polarized Light Microscopy &catid=114:aiccm-news&Itemid=78 Conservation (SC13) – ICCROM or write to: 4–8 June 2012 Deadline for registration: 1st August 2012 10 April–28 June 2013 [email protected] McCrone Research Institute, 10th Special Focus Symposium on Art and ICCROM, Chicago, Illinois, USA Science Rome, Italy For further information about this event please 30 July to 03 August, 2012 Applications should be sent to: contact [email protected] Baden-Baden, Germany Stone Course 13 or visit: www.mcri.org For further information about this event please ICCROM visit: 13, Via di S. Michele www.iias.edu/pdf_12/CFP_art_science_2012.pdf I-00153 Rome, ITALY Or email: E-mail: [email protected] For more information about these conferences and courses, see the [email protected] Application deadline: Applications must be received by ICCROM by 24 August 2012 to IIC website: www.iiconservation.org. ensure inclusion in the selection process. IIC JUNE 2012:Layout 1 12/6/12 19:39 Page 16

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Harvard Art Museums STOP PRESS Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Conservation Science Duties and Responsibilities: The Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies is seeking a postdoctoral scientist for a 3-year Earthquake in Italy Kills research fellowship in the field of conservation science. This position reports to the Senior Conservation Scientist and works with scientists, conservators, conservation fellows, curators, and academic art historians on research projects. Utilizes a broad range of art and artists’ materials collections in the 34 People and Harvard Art Museums and other institutions. Emphasis will be shared between traditional and modern/contemporary artists’ materials and techniques. Provides analytical services to the Straus Center Damages Cultural Heritage conservators and research in the study and preservation of the collection and documents findings. Organizes workshops and symposia to engage others in examining issues related to conservation science research. Assists with instrument maintenance and repair as necessary, and in training others to use the

A series of earthquakes in Emilia Fornasar © Mario Image: instruments. Romagna, a northern region of Italy, Required Education, Experience, and Skills: have killed at least 34 people, Ph.D. in chemistry/physical science combined with experimental research experience and an ability to injured hundreds and caused conduct academic research required. The successful candidate will have a high level of scientific serious damages to buildings in achievement and a serious interest in a career as a scientist in the museum field. Experience with several towns, including important microscopy of diverse types, image analysis, and advanced computational skills desirable. Strong oral and heritage sites. written communications skills required. Demonstrated interest in the visual arts, record of publication The first of many tremors, with a and/or presentation, and knowledge of one or more foreign languages preferred. magnitude of 6.0 on the Richter Additional Information: scale, struck in the middle of the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funds this 3-year research fellowship. The Straus Center has a long night, about 35km (22 miles) north history of multi-disciplinary collaboration among scientists, curators, and art historians. The Harvard Art of the city of Bologna. Subsequently Museums houses world-renowned art collections and important study collections of art and artists’ several aftershocks have continued materials. The laboratories are equipped with polarized light and reflectance/UV fluorescence to hit the region causing more microscopes, GC-MS, FT-IR, MALDI-TOF-MS, Raman and XRF spectrometers. Beyond the resources of the Center, Harvard University and other local universities and museums offer access to specialized damage and destruction. The last analytical equipment and a large scientific community. Please note this is a term position beginning strong episode, a magnitude 5.8 November 1, 2012 and ending November 1, 2015. quake, delivered the final blow to a Application Instructions: battered region forcing hundreds of All applicants must submit their statement of interest (not to exceed one page single-spaced, summarizing people outside their homes and the applicant's interests and intent in the fellowship) and curriculum vitae online through the Harvard causing the collapse, among other employment website: www.employment.harvard.edu, Auto req ID: 26999BR. Inquiries may be directed to buildings, of the Church of St. [email protected] (P:617.495.2392). Francis in Mirandola, . Application deadline: August 20, 2012 IIC expresses solidarity to the Interview notification: September 4 – 7, 2012 relatives of the victims and to the Interviews held: September 10 – 28, 2012 many colleagues involved in the Fellowship start date: November 1, 2012 rescue efforts in the region. Church of St. Paul, Mirabello, Italy The Harvard Art Museums require a pre-employment reference and background screening. Harvard University is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer.