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The chemical extraction unit shown attached to the too cart with it's adjustable tube arm pointed towards the easel.
Flowers | 9. apr. 2013

Setting up a painting conservation studio

After nearly 3 years of conservation work, numerous extraordinary flower paintings have been repaired and hung for the exhibition Flowers and World Views. The show looks stunning!

The finished book cradles at the exhibition Flowers and World Views.
Flowers | 11. apr. 2013

Cradling the florilegia

Couriers have brought rare books of flower paintings to the SMK in padded boxes, and they supervise the books being placed in book cradles.

Flowers | 8. mar. 2013

Treating the Lords-and-Ladies

I have pulled on my soft cotton gloves in order to seize hold of a fold in the piece of parchment bearing a painting of the plant lords-and-ladies, also known as wild arum. Arum maculatum is the …

We are looking at parchment together with Jiri Vnoucek.
Flowers | 8. mar. 2013

The flower is painted on the back of a five-week old calf

The calf cannot have been more than six weeks old when its hide was taken. It might even have been younger, depending on the usual size of the particular race. After all, back then cattle were …

Anja Scocozza, Christian Balleby Jensen and Niels Borring
Flowers | 7. nov. 2012

The pages creak, and the colour peels away

Over the course of four years the paper conservators Anja Scocozza, Christian Balleby Jensen, and Niels Borring have worked on restoring four volumes of precious flower paintings: the Gottorfer Codex.

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