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Hamilton Kerr Institute

Fitzwilliam Museum
 

Published 2024

This extended volume is the 10th in this biennial series which presents the recent research into the conservation, structure, materials, history etc. of paintings carried out by past and present staff and students (including early career interns) of the Hamilton Kerr Institute.

The research topics include:

  • The Gothic murals of Angers Cathedral
  • Woodworking and meaning in the Westminster Retable
  • Treatment and characterisation of rood screen fragments from All Saints church, Wighton, Norfolk
  • An investigation of Portrait of a Young Man by Hans Maler
  • From Adoration to Resurrection: the reconstruction of Sebastiano del Piombo’s Adoration of the Shepherds
  • Sebastiano del Piombo’s Adoration of the Shepherds in context
  • Sebastiano del Piombo’s Adoration of the Shepherds: attribution and dating
  • Double-take: Rembrandt’s c.1631 Old Man with a Gold Chain and its highly exacting copy
  • Through the looking glass: tinted varnish in England c.1750–1900
  • Conservation through the media lens in 1920s and 1930s England: the case of Stanley Kennedy North (1887–1942)
  • Aspects of Duncan Grant’s early practice: repurposing, reuse and refinement within the Bloomsbury artist’s oeuvre
  • A novel joining system for disjoined boards using interlocking strips of wood for a twentieth-century British panel painting by Duncan Grant 
  • The influence of visual perception on the interpretation of technical images in conservation
     

A digital copy is available for download

Hardcopies are available from Archetype Publishing