"Appearance and Reality: Recent Studies in Conservation"
Dorothy H. Abramitis
Dorothy Abramitis is principally responsible for the Greek and Roman collection. Her responsibilities include the technical examination and treatment of objects in all media. She was the supervising conservator for the 15-year reinstallation of the Greek and Roman galleries, which was completed in 2007. Dorothy has been involved in significant research on stone sculpture and polychromy in antiquity. She has participated in international organizations and symposia focused on these subjects, including the Polychrome RoundTable and ASMOSIA. She received a certificate in conservation with an MA in art history from New York University and an MFA in sculpture from Rutgers University.
Abramitis, Dorothy H., and Abbe Mark B. “A group of painted funerary monuments from Hellenistic Alexandria in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” In Les couleurs de l'Antique. Actes de la 8e table ronde internationale sur la polychromie antique / The Colours of the Antique (Polychromy in Ancient Sculpture and Architecture, 8th Round Table), edited by B. Bourgeois, pp. 60-71. Technè n°48, 2020.
Abramitis, Dorothy H. “Statue of an Old Woman: A Case Study in the Effects of Restorations on the Visual Aspect of Sculpture.” In “Appearance and Reality: Recent Studies in Conservation.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 55, no. 3 (Winter 1997–98): 30–37
Abramitis, Dorothy. “Conservation Report, Bacchus Seated on a Panther.” In “A Giustiniani Bacchus and François Duquesnoy,” by Olga Reggio, 220–21. Metropolitan Museum Journal 40 (2005).
James H. Frantz
Elizabeth Hendrix
Michele Marincola
Deborah Salomon
Deborah Schorsch received her graduate training in art history and conservation at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. Her professional focus is the technical study of metalwork and other materials from ancient Egypt. In close collaboration with the Museum’s Egyptian art curators, she has studied ritual statuary, jewelry, and utilitarian implements of gold, silver, bronze, and copper, documenting manufacturing processes and materials in order to define ancient technological styles. She has also lectured and published on ancient and ethnographic metalwork from the Near East, Peru, West Africa, Europe, and India, and on the history of conservation practice at The Met and has participated on excavations and conservation educational initiatives in North and South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
Schorsch, Deborah. “Ritual Metal Statuary in Ancient Egypt: ‘A Long Life and a Great and Good Old Age.’” In Statues in Context: Production, Meaning and (Re)uses, edited by Aurelia Masson-Berghoff, 249–68. British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan. Peeters. Leuven, 2019.
Schorsch, Deborah, Lawrence Becker, and Federico Carò. “Enlightened Technology: Casting Divinity in the Gupta Age.” Arts of Asia 49, no. 2 (Mar–Apr 2019): 131–43.
MetPublications: Selected publications by Deborah Schorsch
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