"A Technical Study of John Singer Sargent's Portrait of Madame Pierre Gautreau"
Silvia A. Centeno
Silvia A. Centeno focuses on artists' materials and techniques and deterioration processes in paintings, photographs, and works of art on paper. She received a PhD in chemistry from Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, and started at The Met as an L. W. Frohlich Fellow to study unusual gilding techniques in Pre-Columbian metalwork. She has published and lectured on a number of topics, including pigment- and platinum-based photographic processes, daguerreotypes, heavy-metal soap deterioration in oil paintings, modern paints, early lithographic inks, and Renaissance paintings. She currently leads interdisciplinary team projects working on the elucidation of nineteenth-century photographic processes and on the deterioration of oil paintings.
Selected publications
Centeno, Silvia A., Mahon, Dorothy, Carò, Federico, Pullins, David. “Discovering the evolution of Jacques-Louis David’s portrait of Antoine-Laurent and Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier.” Heritage Science, 9 (2021): 84. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-021-00551-y.
Centeno, Silvia A. “The Spectroscopic Study of Pigments and Binders in Works of Art,” In J.M. Madariaga Ed. Analytical Strategies for Cultural Heritage Materials and their Degradation. Cambridge, UK: The Royal Society of Chemistry (2021): 183–200
Centeno, Silvia A., Mahon, Dorothy, Carò, Federico, and Lazarte Luna, José Luis. “New light on the use of wood ash residues in the ground preparations of Baroque paintings from Spain, North and South America.” In A. H. Christensen, A. Jager and J.H. Townsend (eds.) Ground Layers in European Painting 1550–1750. London and Copenhagen: Archetype Publications and CATS 28 (2020): 21–30.
ResearchGate: Publications by Silvia A. Centeno
Dorothy Mahon
Dorothy Mahon received her MA in the history of art and a certificate of advanced study in conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She was appointed to the staff in 1981 and has conserved paintings spanning the collection, with emphasis on the technical examination and treatment of European paintings of the 15th to 19th centuries and American paintings, including works by Veronese, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Goya, Delacroix, Homer, and Sargent. She has participated in the supervision and training of many graduate interns and fellows, and has served as a member of the editorial board of the Metropolitan Museum Journal.
Selected publications
Mahon, Dorothy; Silvia A. Centeno, Margaret Iocono, Federico Carò, Andrea Obermeier, and Heike Stege. “Johannes Vermeer’s Mistress and Maid: New Discoveries Cast Light on Changes to the Composition and the Discoloration of Some Paint Passages.” Heritage Science 8 (2020), article no. 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-020-00375-2.
Centeno, Silvia A., Dorothy Mahon, Federico Carò, David Pullins, “Discovering the Evolution of Jacques-Louis David’s Portrait of Antoine-Laurent and Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier,” Heritage Science, 2021. (an open source online journal) https://rdcu.be/cwkET
Mahon, Dorothy, “On the Conservation History of Rembrandt Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Frick Collection 1891-2018,” in Rembrandt: Conservation Histories, Archetype, 2021
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