The Courtauld Gallery is home to one of the greatest collections of art in the UK and an annual programme of focused exhibitions, displays and contemporary commissions. All housed in a beautiful human-sized gallery at Somerset House.
The Courtauld Institute is a research-led, independent college of the University of London, offering world–renowned programmes in the history, conservation, curation and business of art.
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This cluster brings together staff from Art History, Conservation and the Gallery to explore intersections and divergences with Art and Architectural History as practised within and beyond the University and...
Introduction: A ‘cope’ that wasn’t – the power of conservation My introduction begins with a brief story that might raise a smile – or at least an eyebrow – not...
GOGREEN is an EU-funded project developing sustainable, preventive, and remedial conservation practices. The Courtauld is leading Work Package 7 which targets advancing Green Education in Conservation. Project members have collaborated...
Congratulations to Professor Aviva Burnstock, Professor in Conservation at The Courtauld, who has been announced as the 2025 recipient of the Plowden Medal for Conservation. The Plowden Medal for Conservation...
...conversations Sarah MacDougall (Director of Ben Uri) and Aviva Burnstock (Professor of Conservation at The Courtauld) will kick off by discussing their past collaborative technical and art-historical study of paintings...
...Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Art and Conservation at The Courtauld, and supported by the ERC Synergy Grant ‘Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State’, this conference will be...
...in the National Order of the Legion of Honour) by the President of the French Republic for his outstanding achievements in Heritage conservation and his personal affection towards France. He...
...by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure and the Sherman Fairchild Paintings Conservation Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has revealed Piero’s obsessive working and reworking of compositions. Disegno, in...
...records of all known British medieval wall paintings as well as extensive material on post-medieval schemes of painted decoration. Encompassing photographic records, conservation reports, annotated publications and previously unpublished research,...
These events, part of The Courtauld’s Arts of the Buddhist World: Heritage and Conservation lecture series, aim to broaden our understanding of the contemporary and global challenges in the study,...
...Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History Painting Pairs presents collaborative research undertaken by graduates in conservation and art history focussing on paintings currently in the conservation studios at the...
...In this time, The Courtauld has grown as the world’s foremost academic centre for art history, curation, and the conservation of painting, and its Gallery has flourished. Deborah has shown...
