Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology

Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has just published the second issue
of its technical periodical devoted to the exploration of the
reciprocal relationship between physical nature and aesthetics in
the visual arts.

Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology is a
full color, peer-reviewed publication, featuring new research on
topics such as artists' materials and their aging properties,
techniques and technologies used in the manufacture of works of art,
and conservation theory and history.

Volume II of Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and
Technology (as well as Volume I) may be ordered from the Museum's
online shop

    <URL:http://store.metmuseum.org/met-publications/metropolitan-museum-studies-in-art-science-and-technology-volume-2-2014/invt/80024149>

Volume II
Table of Contents

    Conservation in Context: The Examination and Treatment of
    Medieval Polychrome Wood Sculpture in the United States
        Lucretia Kargere and Michele D. Marincola

    Stone Materials Used for Lintels and Decorative Elements of
    Khmer Temples
        Federico Caro, Martin Polkinghorne, and Janet G. Douglas

    The Retable of Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child at The
    Cloisters: Insights into Fifteenth-Century Working Practices in
    the Kingdom of Aragon
        Karen E. Thomas and Silvia A. Centeno

    Petrography of Stone Used for Sculpture from the Buddhist Cave
    Temples of Xiangtangshan Dating to the Northern Qi Dynasty
        Janet G. Douglas and John T. Haynes

    Lebanese Mountain Figures: Advances in the Study of Levantine
    Anthropomorphic Metal Statuary
        Deborah Schorsch

    Research Notes

    Silver Surface Decoration on Limoges Painted Enamels
        Gregory H. Bailey and Robyn E. Hodgkins

    A Closer Look at Red Pictorialist Photographs by Rene Le Begue
    and Robert Demachy
        Anna Vila, Silvia A. Centeno, and Nora W. Kennedy

    Tracing the Origins of Japanese Export Lacquer on an
    Eighteenth-Century French Side Table
        Christina Hagelskamp

    A Technical Examination of Lake Como by Thomas Moran
        Sarah Kleiner

    A Technical Examination of the Lion Helmet
        Edward A. Hunter

    An Investigation of Tool Marks on Ancient Egyptian Hard Stone
    Sculpture: Preliminary Report
        Anna Serotta


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