A death

We are sad to report the sudden death of Anna Marcone, senior
paintings conservator at the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione
e il Restauro (ex-ICR) in Rome.

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A worthy heir of the great Italian critic and art historian Giovanni
Urbani, under whom she trained at the ICR, at that Institution she
was famed equally for her acerbic wit and her infinite patience with
students, inspiring and being revered by generations of graduates
from the ISCR.  She was in her element working on such masters as
Caravaggio, Titian, Giotto, Mantegna and "the love of her life"
Lorenzo Lotto.

However it was not only as a teacher that she left her mark: with
her razor sharp eye and her extraordinary intellectual rigour,
coupled with seemingly endless generosity, she was also a person to
whom colleagues constantly turned, to resolve a crisis, work through
a problem or simply to pass an evening in warmth and cheer.

She will be deeply missed by friends and colleagues all over the
world and in particular by the Italian conservation community.

Mark Gittins


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