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"Sword and Dagger Pommels Associated with the Crusades, Part II: A Technical Study"
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Pete Dandridge
Pete Dandridge came to the Museum in 1979 from the Cooperstown Graduate Program. Initially focusing on the Rockefeller Collection, he became the principal conservator of the ivories, enamels, and metalwork in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, where his primary interest has been to elucidate the technical history of said materials and the capabilities of the artists who manipulated them. He is coediting Medieval Copper, Bronze and Brass with Nicolas Thomas, and is participating in CAST:ING, an international initiative to create an online publication of best practices for documenting the technical history of bronze casting.
Selected publications
Dandridge, Pete, and Lisa Ellis. “Workshop Practices.” In Small Wonders: Late-Gothic Boxwood Micro-Carvings from the Low Countries, edited by Frits Scholten, 514–77. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum Publications Department, 2016.
Dandridge, Pete. “Exquisite Objects, Prodigious Technique: Aquamanilia, Vessels of the Middle Ages.” In Lions, Dragons, and Other Beasts: Aquamanilia of the Middle Ages, Vessels for Church and Table, edited by Peter Barnet and Pete Dandridge, 34–56. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Dandridge, Pete. “A Study of the Gilding of Silver in Byzantium.” In Gilded Metals: History, Technology and Conservation, edited by Terry Drayman-Weisser, 123–43. London: Archetype Publications, 2000.
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Mark T. Wypyski
Mark Wypyski graduated from Haverford College with a combined BS/BA degree, and earned graduate degrees in science, art history, and art conservation from Rutgers University and New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. Having worked at The Met since 1986, he specializes in the application of electron microscopy and X-ray microanalysis for the characterization of art and archaeological materials. His many research projects over the years have concentrated mainly on compositional analysis of ancient and historic glasses and enamels.
Selected publications
Mark Wypyski, “Chemical Analysis of Early Islamic Glass from Nishapur.” In Journal of Glass Studies 57 (2015): 121–136.
Mark Wypyski, “Compositional Study of Medieval Islamic Enameled Glass from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” In Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology 1 (2010): 109–132.
Mark Wypyski, “The Neptune Pendant: Renaissance Jewel or Nineteenth-Century Invention?” In The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 67, no. 1 (2009): 33–39.
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