Sentence examples for paintings conservation from inspiring English sources

Hubert von Sonnenburg, one of the world's leading painting conservators and chairman of paintings conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, died on July 16.

Through x-ray scanning, Meta Chavannes, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston's Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation, discovered the original painting hidden beneath the surface of 1889's Ravine. .

Dr. von Sonnenburg returned to the Met in 1991 as chairman of the paintings conservation department.

De Montebello, Christiansen, and Dorothy Mahon, the museum's head of paintings conservation, flew to London on September 24th.

He stayed there, overseeing a newly created paintings conservation department, until 1974, when he became director of the Doerner Institute.

Still, when the museum recently started to catalog the Spanish paintings in its collection, Mr. Christensen asked Michael Gallagher, chief of the Met's paintings conservation department, to take another look.

This collaboration with Yale is unusual, said Mark Leonard, chief paintings conservator at the Getty, "in that it's involved so many conservators, curators, art historians and conservation scientists".

Paint samples taken from the two paintings during conservation were made into cross sections by embedding in Technovit 2000 LC light curing resin placed in EasySections.

The painting only came to her at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, a division of the museum renowned for paintings research and conservation, because the Dutch Golden Age gallery, which reopens to the public this week, was being renovated.

We work closely together but study different aspects of the physical constitution of the paintings and their conservation.

Sampling provided very valuable information about the banner's construction and materials; this is a well-recognised technique used in paintings analysis for conservation.