Aviva Burnstock
Dr. Aviva Ruth Burnstock (born 1 May 1959)[1] is Head of the Department of Conservation & Technology at the Courtauld Institute, London. Burnstock is a graduate of the University of Sussex (BSc. Neurobiology 1981) and took her PhD at the Courtauld Institute.[2]
Burnstock was one of the team that confirmed that The Procuress in the Courtauld's collection, a version of a 1622 work by Dirck van Baburen now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was a modern forgery by Han van Meegeren.[3][4]
Selected publications
- "A technical study of Cassone panels from the Courtauld Gallery", Tilly Schmidt, Caroline Campbell, Aviva Burnstock, for Zietschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Koneserviereung ZKK 23/2 2010, 315-326, ISSN 0931-7198
- "Impressionist paintings In the Courtauld Gallery: making inferences from recent technical studies", Zietschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Koneserviereung ZKK 2009/1 72-79.
- "Water sensitivity of modern artists’ oil paints", L. Mills, A. Burnstock, H. van Keulen, F. Duarte and K.J. van den Berg, ICOM Committee for Conservation 15th Triennial Meeting, New Delhi, 2008, .651-659.
- "A non-invasive XRF study supported by multivariate statistical analysis and reflectance FTIR to assess the composition of modern painting materials", Francesca Rossi, Aviva Burnstock, Klaas JanVan den Berg, Costanza Miliani, Brunetto Giovanni Brunetti and Antonio Sgamellotti, Spectrochimica Acta vol 71/5 2009, 1655-1662.
References
- ↑ Dr Aviva Burnstock. Debrett's People of Today, 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013. Archived here.
- ↑ Dr Aviva Burnstock. The Courtauld Institute, 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013. Archived here.
- ↑ Master forgery: '17th century work exposed as a fake'. by Dalya Alberge, telegraph.co.uk, 2 July 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2013. Archived here.
- ↑ The Procuress: Fake or Mistake? Courtauld Institute of Art, 4 July 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2013. Archived here.
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