Researching Florentine Workshop Practice

Current Projects
- Researching Florentine Workshop Practice
Past Projects

Detail from The Ascension of Christ (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 80a, verso)

Researching Florentine Workshop Practice is a project that seeks to better understand fourteenth-century Florentine workshop practice and how the materials chosen by artists working in both panel painting and manuscript illumination impact the present-day appearance. . . (more)

Works on Parchment

Using noninvasive techniques for materials analysis and study

Works on Panel

Comparing techniques and materials through analysis and study

Digital Reconstruction

Estimating original appearance informing conservation

Exhibition Didactics

Presenting the project to the public

Related Materials

Materials include: books, articles, and interactives

Image Gallery

Gallery installation of didactic material

Banner image: The Ascension of Christ (detail) from the Laudario of Sant'Agnese, about 1340, Pacino di Bonaguida. Tempera and gold on parchment, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 80a, verso.