Egypt
Wall Street Journal (Robert Lee Hotz)
This article mentions Egypt in passing, but it is actually a fascinating look at on of the problems facing conservation - an aging work force.
See the above page for the full story.
- Book Review: Herakleides
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Jane Draycott) Lorelei H. Corcoran, Marie Svoboda, Herakleides: A Portrait Mummy from Roman Egypt. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. Herakleides: a Portrait Mummy from Roman Egypt not only provides the results...
- Exhibition: Brooklyn Examines Mummies
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt is a traveling special exhibition devoted to Egyptian funerary art, practices and beliefs. In preparation for the show, scholars at New York's Brooklyn Museum...
- Getty Conservation Institute Receives Award
Suite101 (Stan Parchin) The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) received the Distinguished Award for the Advancement of the Field of Conservation from the American Institute of Conservation (AIC) at the organization's annual meeting on May 20, 2009...
- Getty Conservation Institute To Study The Tomb Of Tutankhamun
guardians.net Many thanks to Fred Sierevogel for the above link. There are some lovely photographs of the tombs of Tutankhamun and Nefertari. Since Carter opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, there have been many questions and concerns about the...
- Conserving Kv62
This is a page from the Getty museum on the conservation of king Tutankhamun's tomb that is now ongoing in the valley of kings. The Getty museums site lay's out the projects objectives as well as it's very respectable past record in preservation...
Egypt
As art ages, so do the skills to preserve it
Wall Street Journal (Robert Lee Hotz)
This article mentions Egypt in passing, but it is actually a fascinating look at on of the problems facing conservation - an aging work force.
Through mentoring efforts and knowledge-transfer programs, though, many national laboratories and technical organizations are trying to stave off amnesia by passing on the knowledge of their aging experts before it is too late. To that end, the Getty Foundation, in conjunction with the Getty Conservation Institute and the Getty Museum, has launched a global program to train a new generation of panel conservators.
In recent decades, the Getty has helped protect some of the world's most fragile cultural monuments. Its field projects include the tomb of Queen Nefertari in Egypt, the wall paintings of the Mogao Grottoes in China, the Roman city of Herculaneum, and a 3.6 million-year-old trackway of hominid footprints in Tanzania.
By seeking to preserve the expertise of panel conservators, Getty experts hope to protect the cultural memory embodied in paintings on wood, such as the Mona Lisa.
In this way, Ms. Chui -- part master carpenter, part art scholar, part chemist and a dash of applied physicist -- is in the vanguard of this next generation of conservators. The portrait of the Madonna that she has been restoring for the past 14 months offers an object lesson in the problems that conservators confront.
See the above page for the full story.
- Book Review: Herakleides
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Jane Draycott) Lorelei H. Corcoran, Marie Svoboda, Herakleides: A Portrait Mummy from Roman Egypt. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. Herakleides: a Portrait Mummy from Roman Egypt not only provides the results...
- Exhibition: Brooklyn Examines Mummies
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt is a traveling special exhibition devoted to Egyptian funerary art, practices and beliefs. In preparation for the show, scholars at New York's Brooklyn Museum...
- Getty Conservation Institute Receives Award
Suite101 (Stan Parchin) The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) received the Distinguished Award for the Advancement of the Field of Conservation from the American Institute of Conservation (AIC) at the organization's annual meeting on May 20, 2009...
- Getty Conservation Institute To Study The Tomb Of Tutankhamun
guardians.net Many thanks to Fred Sierevogel for the above link. There are some lovely photographs of the tombs of Tutankhamun and Nefertari. Since Carter opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, there have been many questions and concerns about the...
- Conserving Kv62
This is a page from the Getty museum on the conservation of king Tutankhamun's tomb that is now ongoing in the valley of kings. The Getty museums site lay's out the projects objectives as well as it's very respectable past record in preservation...