013 - "Christopher Clarkson: Legacy and Influence of a Conservator": Final Remarks

Concluding remarks by Rhea DeStefano e Alberto Campagnolo, editors of the volume.

Rhea DeStefano has served as the Senior Paper Conservator at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC, USA since 2002. She graduated from the European School for Book Conservation in Spoleto, Italy and interned under Christopher Clarkson in the conservation of Rare Books and Manuscripts at West Dean College, England in 1997. She began her career as a conservator at the Deutsches Historisches Museum and then worked at the Berlinische Galerie, both in Berlin, Germany, prior to moving to take her post at the Folger. She is a practitioner with a special interest in parchment and archival document treatment as well as wax seal repair. She recently has been researching the use of yellow colourants on paper in European books from the late 16th century.

Alberto Campagnolo trained as a book conservator at the European School for Book Conservation (1998-2001) in Spoleto, Italy and has worked in that capacity in various institutions, amongst which the National Museum Wales, London Metropolitan Archives, St. Catherine’s Monastery (Egypt), and the Vatican Library. He studied Conservation of Library and Archive Materials (2001-2006) at Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy and then read for an MA in Digital Culture and Technology (2007-2009) at King’s College London. He pursued a PhD (2010-2015) on an automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures at the Ligatus Research Centre (University of the Arts, London). He is an adjunct professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Udine, Italy (2018-ongoing), and Visiting Scholar at the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDHP - Ca’ Foscari University Venice). He has directed the Digital Medievalist community of practice since 2015. Since 2018 he has been an acting member of the IADA board. He has been part of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Paper Conservation since 2016, and he is now co-editor in-Chief with Aurélie Martin.

Campagnolo, Alberto, and Rhea DeStefano, eds. Christopher Clarkson. Legacy and Influence of a Conservator. Journal of Paper Conservation, 20 (1-4). Milton Park: Taylor & Francis for IADA, 2019. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yjpc20/20/1-4.

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