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Posted on 26/12/202219/01/2023

Change of posture and materials among nineteenth-century South Asian painters

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,…

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Posted on 08/12/2022

Online lecture on my ongoing conservation and research project (Tuesday 13th December 2022)

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.…

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Posted on 20/11/2022

Butter sculptures in the Gyuto Tantric Monastery in McLeodganj (Himachal Pradesh)- My trip to North West India October 2022

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…

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Posted on 10/10/202210/10/2022

Book release: History of Paper in Iran, 1501–1925.

Willem Floor & Amelie Couvrat Desvergnes, Mage Publishers, 2022. The black and white hardcopy is available here The kindle full colour version is available on…

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Posted on 26/09/202226/09/2022

Revealing the unseen in Indian miniature paintings with the Multimodal Image Viewer.

When I was conservator at the Rijksmuseum from 2017 to 2019, I studied the Indian drawings in the collection. I was fortunate to benefit from…

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Posted on 08/09/202208/09/2022

Mounting a double-sided folio in hyperlapse

For each drawing and painting, I make a float mount using a sheet of Japanese paper in which a window is cut to allow viewing…

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Posted on 07/09/202207/09/2022

The mounting of a painting with dust-cover using photo-corners: a longing heroine braves the storm

The project on the Pahari works of the Museum Volkenkunde is going well. I am currently mounting the 134 paintings and drawings using methods tailored…

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Posted on 07/09/2022

New short-courses: paper in the Islamic World and pigments and dyes in Islamicate manuscripts

I have recently developed these specific courses to cover the materiality of Islamicate manuscripts and paintings on paper. These courses are 3 hours in length…

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Posted on 07/09/2022

Lecture for the AFHEPP: Le Papier dans le Sous-Continent Indien: Histoire, Techniques et Matériaux

In July, before going on holidays, I gave one-hour lecture for the Association Francaise pour l'Histoire et l'Etude du Papier et des Papeteries. The attendees…

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Posted on 07/09/202207/09/2022

Lecture at the 36th Biennal Congress of the International Association of Paper Historians in Krems (Austria)

Handmade papers used for the production of Pahari drawings from the 19th century-north western India. The conference was entitled Paper of Graphic Art and showcased…

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