With Gerrit Albertson
(Detail) Gerrit Albertson at the Biblioteca Marciana with one of the Philosophers by Paolo Veronese
The field of paintings conservation aims to preserve, document, and restore artworks—work that is often informed by scientific and art historical research. Working from a group of case studies, Albertson will discuss various condition issues associated with old master paintings and the treatments conservators use to address them. Some of the paintings to be considered include Coriolanus Taking Leave of his Family (1786, National Gallery of Art) by Anne-Louis Girodet, Cephalus and Procris (c. 1680s, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) by Godfried Schalken, and the two Allegories of Navigation (c. 1555, Los Angeles County Museum of Art) by Paolo Veronese.
Gerrit Albertson is an Associate Paintings Conservator at The Art Institute of Chicago. Previously, he was an Associate Conservator of Paintings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a fellow in paintings conservation at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gerrit earned his Master of Science and Certificate in Conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2017, and he completed a 12-month internship at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam as his final year of graduate study. Gerrit’s research focuses on the materials and techniques found in early modern European paintings and the changes that affect how viewers perceive these works today. He has published his work in peer-reviewed journal articles, such as in the Metropolitan Museum Journal, the National Gallery of Art’s Facture and the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation.