In: Care and conservation of manuscripts 18, Proceedings of the eighteenth international seminar held at the University of Copenhagen 14th–16th April 2021, Edited by M.J.…
Unlike the Mughal miniatures which were framed with sumptuous borders made of gold-flecked, painted, gilded and marbled paper, the borders of the Pahari works were…
Continue reading → The art of borders in Pahari paintings: description and conservation
Last week, I gave a two-day course on paper technology in Arab lands to the conservation team of the Franciscan Archives in Malta.The course has…
Continue reading → Course on paper history and technology in the Western Islamic lands
This article reports the results of the conservation and research project on the Pahari drawings of the Museum Volkenkunde. The paper is part of the…
The article has just been published in the new issue of PapierS n.17 Janvier 2023, a periodical from the AFHEPP association (Association francaise pour l'Histoire…
A few years ago I had to conserve this badly damaged Gil Blas Almanac from 1881. The word Almanac was borrowed from medieval Latin almanac…
Continue reading → Street vendors and book peddlers: the conservation of an almanac from 1881
Western art has a plethora of self-portraits of artists at work. Rembrandt's paintings, in which the artist represents himself at different stages of his life,…
Continue reading → Change of posture and materials among nineteenth-century South Asian painters
Next Tuesday, I will give an online lecture on my project to research and conserve the Pahari drawing and painting collection of the Museum Volkenkunde.…
On my recent trip to India, I visited Dharamsala and McLeodganj, where the Dalai Lama established his community in 1959 when he went into exile…
Willem Floor & Amelie Couvrat Desvergnes, Mage Publishers, 2022. The black and white hardcopy is available here The kindle full colour version is available on…
Continue reading → Book release: History of Paper in Iran, 1501–1925.
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