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Contributors

Cristina Beretta is a UK conservator specializing in wall paintings, plasterwork, and stucco from the antiquity to the present. In addition to her conservation training at the Academy of Brera in Milan and the Palazzo Spinelli in Florence, she has participated in accreditation courses by CIPET (Centro Italiano Per l’Edilizia Torino) and CESMAR 7 (Trento).

Pieter Collet is a freelance archaeological illustrator since 1991 who has worked for many different archaeological institutes and university faculties around the Mediterranean and in the Netherlands. He specializes in drawing and digital drawings of architectural remains, sections, small finds and pottery, and wall paintings and relief.

Katy Doyle lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and is a freelance photographer and graphic designer. She specializes in the development and use of on-site, non-invasive digital techniques for the documentation of art and archaeology.

Elsa van Elslande is an engineer at the Laboratoire d’Archéologie Moléculaire et Structurale (LAMS), CNRS. She is a specialist in Raman and infrared spectroscopy, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), and the chemical synthesis of cosmetics and dyes.

Renata García Moreno is an archaeologist and conservator, specializing in painting technology and Maya elite funerary practices. She is a lecturer at the University of Liège in Belgium and a researcher at PACEA, University of Bordeaux 1 in France. She has worked in numerous international projects, mainly concerning prehistoric and ancient art.

Melinda Hartwig received her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and is currently an associate professor of ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern art at Georgia State University in Atlanta. A specialist on painting, she has worked in Egypt for thirty years, and has written numerous articles and books, including Tomb Painting and Identity in Ancient Egypt: 1419–1372 BCE and the forthcoming Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art.

François-Philippe Hocquet is a researcher from the Centre Européen d’Archéométrie at the University of Liège in Belgium. Specializing in the implementation of portable instruments, he is working on Energy Dispersive X-Ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometry and Fiber Optics Reflectance Spectroscopy (FORS) for the analysis of cultural heritage.

Gregory Howarth lives in London. He has a masters degree in art conservation from Queen’s University, Ontario, and is a self-employed art conservator, specializing in wall paintings and easel paintings.

Alexandra Kosinova lives in London and is a wall-painting and sculpture conservator. She was a senior sculpture conservator at the Victoria and Albert Museum for ten years and has worked on site in Abusir and Bahariya in Egypt, and in Usli, al-Kurru, in North Sudan.

Kerstin Leterme was a PhD student in art history and archaeometry at Ghent University and the Center for Archaeometry of Liège’s University in Belgium. She specializes in the study of Theban tomb wall paintings and developed a new visual analysis methodology with which to study work process and specific artists’ techniques that has been published in a number of articles and seminars.

Bianca Madden is a freelance conservator based in Oxford, UK, who specializes in wall paintings and sculpture, both in Egypt and Europe. A few of her conservation projects include the painted Theban tombs of Sennefer and Amenemope; the sculptures at the Colossi of Memnon; and conservation in the Neues Museum in Berlin and the Benaki Museum in Athens.

François Mathis is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Liège, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS). He specializes in material science and the development of analytical techniques applied to cultural heritage artifacts, especially metal. His publications include F. Mathis and E. Delange, et al., “HMTY-KM (Black Copper) and the Egyptian Bronze Collection of the Musée du Louvre,” Journal of Cultural Heritage 10 (2009): 63–72.

Mark Perry is an accredited specialist wall-painting conservator with over thirty years’ practical experience. Although Menna was his first tomb painting, Mark has worked extensively on wall paintings dating from the eleventh to twentieth centuries throughout the UK and Ireland and is co-director of the Perry Lithgow Partnership Ltd., one of the leading conservation firms in England.

David Strivay is the director of the Centre Européen d’Archéométrie at the University of Liège in Belgium. He is a specialist in the development of mobile non-invasive analytical techniques and their use in cultural heritage.

Douglas Thorp is a freelance conservator based in London, specializing in wall-painting conservation and the restoration of historic buildings. For the Menna Project, he was also responsible for digital documentation and layout used both on site and for presentation.

Peter Vandenabeele is full professor in archaeometry in the Department of Archaeology, Ghent University. One of the major topics of his research is the optimization, development, and application of Raman spectroscopy. He has given numerous conference presentations and has written several book chapters and research papers, such as P. Vandenabeele et al., Chemical Review 107, no. 3 (2007): 675–86.