Hamilton Kerr Institute

Academic Staff

 

Research description

Ann has a degree in the History of Art and Fine Art from Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana. She continued her art historical studies at the University of Strasbourg, France, then did her conservation training at the Institute of Technologie der Malerei in Stuttgart Germany, receiving her degree Diplomrestaurator in 1979. She became Assistant to the Director of the HKI in 1978. She was the recipient of a British Academy Research Readership (1995-1997) and a Leverhulme Fellowship (2004-2006). She retired in 2007, and is now concentrating on her own research and editing publications for the Hamilton Kerr Institute.

Her research interests centre on the history of the materials and techniques of painting and the history of painting restoration – especially in France.

Publications in Press

• A Massing Written sources and technical treatises on oil painting techniques written in the French language, Written sources and technical treatises on oil painting techniques written in the French language, Painting Conservation, ed. J H Stoner and R Rushfield, Butterworths

Select Publications

• A Massing The History of Egg tempera as a retouching medium, Mixing and Matching: Approaches to Retouching Paintings, ed. R Ellison, P Smithen and R Turnbull, Archetype Publications Ltd. 2010
• A Massing On the relationship between El Greco's small-scale paintings and his larger works, El Greco's Studio, Insitute for Mediterranean Studies/Forth University of Crete, Proceedings of the Interntional Symposium Rethymnon, Crete, 23-24 September 2005, ed. Nicos Hajinicolaou, Crete University Press, Iraklion 2007: pp. 355-383
• A Massing (ed), Painting and Practice: The Thornham Parva Retable, Technique, Conservation and Context of an English Medieval Painting, HKI, University of Cambridge, Harvey Miller 2003
• A Massing A short history of tempera painting, Making Medieval Art, ed. P Lindley, University of Leicester, Shaun Tyas Donington 2003: pp. 30-41
• A Massing (ed), Hamilton Kerr Institute Bulletin, number 3, ed. A Massing, Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge 2000
• A Massing French painting technique in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and De La Fontaine's 'Académie de la peinture (Paris 1679), Leids Kunsthisorisch Jaarboek 1998 : Looking through paintings, London and Leiden 1998: pp. 319-390
• A Massing Restoration policy in France in the eighteenth century, Studies in the History of Painting Restoration, London 1998: pp. 63-84
• A Massing, A Robinson and J Purkin, A Florentine Procession: A painting by Jane Benham Hay at Homerton College, Cambridge , Cambridge 1997
• A Massing From books of secrets to encyclopaedias: painting techniques in France between 1600 and 1800, Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice, preprints for the GCI Symposium, June 1995 Lawrence, Kansas, Getty Conservation Institute 1995: pp. 20-29
• A Massing (ed), Hamilton Kerr Institute Bulletin, number 2, ed. A Massing, Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge 1994
• A Massing Arnaud Vincent de Montpetit and Eludoric painting, Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung 1993: pp. 359-368
• A Massing, M Kemp, N Christie and K Groen Paolo Uccello's 'Hunt in the Forest', The Burlington Magazine, CXXXIII, London 1991: pp. 164-178
• A Massing Painting materials and techniques: Towards a bibliography of the French literature before 1800 , Die Kunst und ihre Erhaltung, Rolf E. Straub zum 70. Geburtstag gewidmet, Worms 1990: pp. 57-96
• A Massing From print to painting: Le moyen de devenir peintre en trois heures. The Technique of Glass Transfer Painting, Print Quarterly , VI, London 1989: pp. 382-393
• A Massing and N Christie 'The Hunt in the Forest' by Paolo Uccello, Hamilton Kerr Institute Bulletin, number 1, ed. I McClure, Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge 1988: pp. 30-47
• A Massing The examination and restoration of El Greco's 'El Esolio', Hamilton Kerr Institute Bulletin, number 1, ed. I McClure, Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge 1988: pp. 76-81
• A Massing Orazio Gentileschi's 'Joseph and Potifar's Wife': a 17th century use of bituminous paint, Hamilton Kerr Institute Bulletin, number 1, ed. I McClure, Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge 1988: pp. 99-104