Category: Publications

The National Gallery Technical Bulletin is a unique record of research carried out at the National Gallery. Drawing on the combined expertise of curators, conservators, and scientists, it brings together a wealth of information about artists’ materials,
practices, and techniques.

Volume 32 of the Technical Bulletin is a special issue devoted to the work of Leonardo da Vinci, his training in the workshop of Verrocchio, and his followers and associates. Its publication in print coincides with the National Gallery exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan (9 November 2011 – 5 February 2012).

Series Editor: Ashok Roy

Contents:

Leonardo in Verrocchio’s Workshop: Re-examining the Technical
Evidence
Jill Dunkerton

Leonardo da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks: Treatment, Technique
and Display
Larry Keith, Ashok Roy, Rachel Morrison and Peter Schade

Painting Practice in Milan in the 1490s: The Influence of Leonardo
Marika Spring, Antonio Mazzotta, Ashok Roy, Rachel Billinge and
David Peggie

Altered Angels: Two Panels from the Immaculate Conception
Altarpiece once in San Francesco Grande, Milan
Rachel Billinge, Luke Syson and Marika Spring

To purchase and for more information, go to www.nationalgallery.co.uk/products/p_1032030

The Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies (JCMS), an Open Access and fully peer-reviewed journal, is being relaunched with a newly constituted international editorial board.

We are currently welcoming contributions focusing on:

•    Collection and exhibition management
•    Critical approaches to conservation, museum collections and exhibitions
•    Learning, communication, interpretation and evaluation of museums
•    Materials science and technical studies of objects, collections and conservation materials
•    Participatory processes
•    Professional and ethical issues
•    Remedial or preventive conservation

Check the JCMS website and get in touch with Renata Peters and/or Anastasia Sakellariadi if you wish to contribute to the re-launch.

Editorial board:
Renata Peters, UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK
Dr Anastasia Sakellariadi, UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK
Eleni Asderaki, Archaeological Museum of Volos, Greece
Dr Kalliopi Fouseki, UCL Centre for Sustainable Heritage, UK
Dr Alan J. Hogg, University of Michigan, USA
Emily Kaplan, National Museum of the American Indian, USA
Dr Barry Knight, The British Library, UK
Dr Theano Moussouri, UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK
Eric Nordgren, The Mariners Museum Norfolk, USA
Prof Elizabeth Pye, UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK
Prof Bethania Reis Velloso, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Dr Cordelia Rogerson, The British Library, UK
Devorah Romanek, The British Museum, UK
Tracey Sweek, The British Museum, UK
Brian Hole, Ubiquity Press, UK

JCMS website:  www.jcms-journal.com
Renata Peters: m.peters@ucl.ac.uk
Anastasia Sakellariadi:  a.sakellariadi@ucl.ac.uk

The third number of Intervencion, Revista lnternacional de Conservacion, Restauracion y Museologia, an academic, international, and peer-reviewed magazine dedicated to the research and dissemination on the fields of conservation, restoration, museum studies and related disciplines in the study of cultural heritage, is now available. Published biannually by the Escuela Nacional de Conservacion, Restauracion y Museografia, one of the key educational cornerstones of the lnstituto Nacional de Antropologfa e Historia (INAH), Mexico, this publication aims at generating informed criticism by promoting interdisciplinary, intra-institutional and cross-cultural dialogue within the national and international academic community. The Escuela Nacional de Conservacion, Restauracion y Museografia encourages people to submit contributions to the forthcoming numbers. For more information, visit www.encrym.edu.mx.

The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections have joined forces on the ultimate reference book for museum professionals: Health and Safety for Museum Professionals, edited by Catharine Hawks, Michael McCann, Kathryn Makos, Lisa Goldberg, David Hinkamp, Dennis Ertel, and Patricia Silence.

This comprehensive volume is treated in three parts:

• Part 1: Principles of Safety and Health – fire protection, occupational hazards, and waste management.
• Part 2: Specific Hazards (particulates, chemical hazards, and toxins, physical, mechanical, and electrical hazards, and radiation).
• Part 3: Museum Work (facilities management, emergency salvage, collections management, fieldwork, conservation and restoration, and exhibit protection and maintenance).

The nineteen chapters were written by top specialists in their field. This hardcover book is nearly 650 pages and is sure to be heavily used at your museum!

Purchase the book by July 31 at a promotional price of $80. Starting in August, the price will be $95.  The book is for sale through University Products.

Smithsonian Institute’s Museum Conservation Institute (MCI) is pleased to announce the second in the series of the Smithsonian Contribution to Museum Conservation, “Biocolonization of Stone: Control and Preventive Methods: Proceedings from the MCI Workshop Series” is now officially published. The full-volume PDF is available from: http://www.scholarlypress.si.edu/index.cfm or http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/handle/10088/16617.

 

The U.S. National Park Service Museum Management Program is pleased to announce the publication of several new Conserve O Gram technical leaflets on the following topics: 

• How To Select Gloves: An Overview For Collections Staff
• Care and Identification of Objects Made from Plastic
• Preparing and Storing Geological Drill Cores
• Digital Storage Media

The National Park Service (NPS) Conserve O Gram (COG) series is geared to collections management staff. Technical leaflets cover a range of collections types, including archives, ceramics, digital media, fine arts, furniture, leatherwork, natural history collections, photographs, and textiles. The COGs address specific procedures, techniques and materials on preservation, security, fire and curatorial safety, agents of deterioration, packing and shipping, storage, and disaster preparedness.

The Conserve O Grams series and other resources are available for free download on the NPS Publications page.