Making Art in Tudor Britain - Workshop 2
Making Art in Tudor Britain
Abstracts from Academic Workshops (2007-8)
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
Workshop 2 (November 2007)
Tudor Artists or Artisans? Native practices, methods, materials and the context of craft production
Artists' Materials in Sixteenth-Century England: Import and Retail Trade
Jo Kirby Atkinson, Scientific Department, The National Gallery, London
Medieval artistic practice: Precursors in medieval paint technology
Marie Louise Sauerberg, Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge
The Technique of English Medieval Wall Painting: 1385-1485, the century leading to the reign of Henry Tudor
Helen Howard, Scientific Department, National Gallery
English Workshops: work in progress on 'Master John' & other 1540s native painters
Sophie Plender, Senior Project Conservator, National Portrait Gallery
Dr. Tarnya Cooper, Curator, sixteenth-century collections, National Portrait Gallery
Decorative painting and plasterwork in houses: the use of copy-books
Dr Tara Hamling, Department of Modern History, University of Birmingham
Furniture and woodwork in Tudor England: native practices, methods, materials and context
Nick Humphrey, Furniture, Textiles and Fashion Department, Victoria and Albert Museum
Elizabethan and Jacobean Painter-Heralds
Dr Elizabeth Goldring, Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick
Artists and guilds in London: constraints and opportunities
Ian W. Archer, Keble College, Oxford
Provincial Artisan Networks and the Painter's Occupation
Robert Tittler, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada