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Conserving the Past for the Future

Conservation in Action


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Marta Oriola: About the Conservator

Working on a Medieval panel painting gives you the opportunity to closely study the techniques that were being used in the past: the under-drawing, the paint layer, the gilding, etc. All these technical details can be compared with other surviving panel paintings of the same period and new connections can be compared with other surviving panel paintings of the same period and new connections eventually emerge.

Being a Spaniard myself, the painting "Bishop Saint with Donor" is especially interesting to me as this gives me the chance to get firsthand information and a deeper knowledge of medieval Spanish painting. Moreover, the painting is thought to be from Catalonia. That it is the region where I come from, so it is even more relevant to me.

Marta Oriola, Conservator

Marta Oriola was born in 1974 in Barcelona, Spain. In 1997 she graduated with a five-year Fine Arts Degree, with a specialization in Conservation, from the University of Barcelona. She then participated in a one-year internship at the paper Conservation Studio of the Library of the University of Barcelona.

She received her Masters Degree in the Conservation of Paintings from the University of Northumbria (UK) and has worked at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain), the National Maritime Museum (Greenwich, UK) and the Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK). She has also participated in on-site projects such as the conservation of two large paintings at the University of Barcelona, and the conservation of twelve paintings in Pugin Hall at the University of Ireland.

Oriola is currently working at the Cleveland Museum of Art on a one-year grant from the Fulbright Commission (Commission for Cultural, Educational, and Scientific Exchange between the United States of America and Spain).

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