Last year at the British Museum's Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greece exhibition, one of the most outstanding pieces was the Apoxyomenos, see: The Croatian Apoxyomenos. It was a relatively recent find, discovered by a tourist diving [...]
As part of the 400 year anniversary events to mark Shakespeare's death, a major conservation and restoration project has been on going in the 15th century Guildhall in Stratford on Avon, with the restored building to open as [...]
Last week, 25-29 April, was the 10th ICAANE conference, held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. ICAANE (International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East) is a conference cycle organised by archaeologists from various [...]
These 1532 carved spandrels over the doorway leading to the Great Hall at Hampton Court were severely deteriorating. Carved from soft Reigate stone, they were powdering, blistering and delaminated and in danger of further loss of material. [...]
From 7-9 April the Ancient Egyptian Coffins Past, Present and Future conference was held in Cambridge, to coincide with major Death on the Nile exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum - a part of the museum's bicentenary celebration. [...]
Having just been writing about the conservation of a 1940s Annunciation, Award Win For Lost Wall Paintings, I was reminded of a conservation project, for Tobit Curteis Associates, a couple of years ago on a 14th century [...]
The conservation project for Tobit Curties Associates, undertaken in late 2014, at St Martin's Church Bilborough, on the damaged and partially lost 1940s Evelyn Gibbs wall paintings, has won the 2015 SPAB John Betjeman Award. A little article [...]
Last week was the inaugural conference on the Conservation of Theban Temples and Tombs, Luxor, organised by Susanne Brinkmann and Christina Verbeek, and sponsored by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. The conference was a one day event, and [...]
While working on various conservation projects in the Theban Necropolis in Luxor, including some covered in this blog: Conservation of a New Tomb; The Colossi Of Memnon, Thebes, Luxor, Egypt, the teams have stayed at the legendary [...]
This was a conservation project in summer 2015, focusing on the stabilisation and uncovering of c16th wall paintings in Ellys Manor House in Lincolnshire. The upper floors of the former merchant's house are extensively decorated with early [...]
