Published by the Hamilton Kerr Institute and Harvey Miller as volume 3 of the series Painting and Practice

During the second half of the eighteenth century, the profession of painting restorer became established in France. Documents concerning the careers of the restorers of that period employed by the French Royal Collection, and then by the new French Republic, have been examined, resulting in this study in which the biographies of the main painting restorers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are placed into the historical and cultural setting of the period. Details of the techniques used by these restorers are presented in detail. The narrative concludes in the early nineteenth century with the death of François-Toussaint Hacquin in 1832 – about the time of the Restauration (of Louis-Philippe to the throne) in 1830.

Ann Massing has a degree in the History of Art and Fine Art from Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana and has the title of Diplom-Restorator from the Institute für Technologie der Malerei, Stuttgart, Germany. She is a painting restorer and was Assistant to the Director of the Hamilton Kerr Institute from 1978 to 2007.

This work has been compiled under funding from a British Academy Research Readership from 1995 to 1997 and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship from 2005 to 2006. The Samuel H Kress Foundation contributed towards the cost of the illustrations.

The book may be ordered directly from the publisher, Brepols.

Hardback. ISBN: 978-1-905375-34-9

The conference will take place on Friday, 27 April 2012 and Saturday, 28 April 2012 at CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.

•    Student fee (includes lunches and teas/coffees) £30.00
•    Full fee (includes lunches and teas/coffees) £60.00

The Art and Science of Medieval Church Screens will help shape new understandings of old barriers: the richly carved and painted screens which filled medieval churches. These screens divided ‘lay’ from ‘priestly’ jurisdiction, but it has been argued also served to unify architectural space. They are found throughout Europe and survive in particularly high numbers in England, despite being part-dismantled during the Reformation.

The conference will bring together art historians, historians of religion, conservators, and conservation scientists, providing the latest scholarship on the subject from both western and eastern Europe. The geographical scope of the conference is equally broad, ranging from Scandinavia to Italy, England to Russia.

The rood screen project at the Hamilton Kerr Institute has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The conference has been convened by the Cambridge University Medieval Panel Painting Research Centre with the support of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), University of Cambridge and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge

This conference will help shape new understandings of old barriers: the richly carved and painted screens which filled medieval churches. It will interest art historians, historians of religion and conservators.

The conference is being convened by the Cambridge University Medieval Panel Painting Research Centre, of which the Hamilton Kerr Institute is a partner, with the support of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), University of Cambridge.

The conference comes at the end of a three-year study on East Anglian medieval screens based at the Hamilton Kerr Institute and funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

Registration for the conference will open in the New Year.

http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1711/

Tate Britain
11-13 June 2012
Presented by Northumbria University with kind support from Tate

The next Gerry Hedley Student Symposium is the 30th Anniversary!
To celebrate this achievement and in recognition of the appreciable contribution more than 400 students from the Hamilton Kerr Institute, the Courtauld Institute, and Northumbria University programmes have made, it is intended to hold a three day event at Tate Britain, 11-13 June 2012.

The overall working theme reflects current topics in conservation which relate to research developed and pioneered by Gerry Hedley. The traditional day for current student’s work will be followed by a second day drawing on former student’s research and practical activity since graduation. The content for the third day will be developed over the coming months but will include topics and papers suggested by experienced professionals.

Contributions may relate to subjects chosen by current students. As a prompt for related submissions, titles for current student projects will be published with the call for papers. Former students now working in different fields are welcome to participate with relevant topics. There are many possibilities. Updating areas of research that Gerry Hedley developed would be especially appropriate. It is hoped that the call for contribution and participation will be spread by word-of-mouth.

We invite all former students to submit short resume of their student projects and past and current career details to be published on a forthcoming website for the symposium to:
az.ghsymposium2012 [at] northumbria__ac__uk.
It is hoped that this will encourage engagement between former students in celebration of the 30th anniversary

A call for papers is forthcoming.

Two or more internships will be offered from September 2012. Tenable for one year, interns may be invited to extend the internship for a further year. Applicants should be recent graduates from a recognised training programme. The internships are designed to allow concentration on practical studio work, but with opportunities for research work, depending on current projects at the Institute. Two internships will be funded, with a maintenance grant of £1300 p/m and the tuition fees reimbursed.  One or two other internships may be offered, but these will not necessarily be fully funded, and candidates may be required to find some of the funding required (maintenance and tuition fees).

The University has a responsibility to ensure that candidates comply with UK Border and Immigration legislation and have the right to live and undertake an internship in the UK.

Applications with the name and address of two referees should be e-mailed or addressed to:

The Administrator
The Hamilton Kerr Institute
Mill Lane
Whittlesford
Cambridge CB22 4NE, UK
+44 1223 832040
Fax: +44 1223 837595
hki-admin@ lists.cam.ac.uk

Closing date for all applications: 31 January 2012

Closing date for applications: 9 September 2011
Planned interview date: end of September/beginning of October 2011

For the second year the work of staff and interns of the HKI will feature on BBC television on Christmas day. Marking another collaboration with Fulmar Television, Cris Patrick and Krista Blessley created a detailed partial reconstruction of The Adoration of the Christ Child by Filippo Lippi, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. The reconstruction was informed by close visual observation, analysis and knowledge of artistic working practises of the 15th Century.

Cris and Krista have included some more information about the reconstruction on our website, under the Research section.