Meet Katherine Van Kirk, the 2016 Chen-Yang Fellow
Meet Katherine Van Kirk, a Stanford student who started working in the Art+Science Learning Lab at the Cantor last summer as the 2016 Chen-Yang Fellow. Her work is learning […]
Category Archives: History and Theory
UV fluorescence analysis
In addition to the Athenian white-ground lekythos I talked about in my last post, I’m studying a Japanese sue jar from the 12th century CE. After a solid week of […]
A first look at the lekythos: reconstructing palmette patterns
One of the objects I’m studying in the conservation lab this summer is an Athenian white-ground lekythos from approximately 430 BCE. A lekythos is a type of ancient Greek vase […]
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