Paintings
Paintings groups together a number of different areas of research which share a common denominator: the conservation and restoration of movable, two dimensional painted surfaces.
Interim meeting
Programme 2005-2008
Past Programmes
The research areas are:
- Historical studies of painting materials
- Technical art history
- Studies into the deterioration of artist’s materials, including the dynamic interaction between pigments and media
- Studies on mechanical behaviour of paintings materials
- Cleaning
- Structural conservation of paintings, stabilisation and consolidation
- Retouching and varnishing strategies
- Novel treatments
- Painted miniatures
- Icons
The Coordinators of the Working Group Paintings are:
With assistant coordinators
- Tiarna Doherty
- Joyce Townsend
The working group aims to produces a yearly Newsletter, with occasional email postings as necessary. A yearly request to update contact information will be sent via email. The membership of this group is large and to help us stay in contact we urge all to provide an email address.
For information, please contact the Working Group's Co-ordinators.