Contact details

The Courtauld Institute of Art

Somerset House

Strand

London

WC2R 0RN

 

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 2658

alice.da_silva@courtauld.ac.uk

 

Alice Tavares da Silva is a half-time lecturer in the Conservation of Easel Paintings. Following her BSc Hon degree in Applied Chemistry, she gained an MA in Conservation of Paintings from the University of Northumbria in Newcastle in 1995.

 

She undertook internships in The Netherlands and then at the Hamilton Kerr Institute in Cambridge, where she was then employed as a paintings conservator. She has been involved in the practical conservation of paintings in private practices since 2000 and was appointed Lecturer (half –time) at The Courtauld Institute of Art in November 2001.

 

Programmes taught during the forthcoming academic year

 

  • Practical Conservation and Restoration of Easel Paintings
  • Introductory Science course
  • Practical Painting Technique for Replicas

 

Current research/interests

 

Medieval painting and decorative techniques

 

Recent publications

 

Sauerberg, M.L., Tavares da Silva, A, ‘The Coronation Chair – Revisited’, Studies in Conservation, vol. 50, number 3, 2005, pp230-233.

 

Tavares da Silva, A., ‘The Decorated Background’, in Massing, A. (ed) The Thornham Parva Retable, Technique, Conservation and Context of an English Medieval Painting, (Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge and Harvey Miller Publishers, 2003), 47-53.

 

Tavares da Silva, A. and Kempski, M., ‘Treatment’, in Massing, A. (ed) The Thornham Parva Retable, Technique, Conservation and Context of an English Medieval Painting, (Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge and Harvey Miller Publishers, 2003), 74-91.

 

Tavares da Silva, A., ‘Reconstruction of the decorated background’, in Massing, A. (ed) The Thornham Parva Retable, Technique, Conservation and Context of an English Medieval Painting, (Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge and Harvey Miller Publishers, 2003), 129-133.

 

Sauerberg, M.L., Howard, H., Tavares da Silva, A., ‘The Wall paintings of c. 1300 in the Ante-Reliquary Chapel, Norwich Cathedral and the Thornham Parva Retable: a technical comparison, in Massing, A. (ed) The Thornham Parva Retable, Technique, Conservation and Context of an English Medieval Painting, (Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge and Harvey Miller Publishers, 2003), 189-199.