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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 35 (2000)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 35

"The Kalkar School of Carving: Attribution of a Wooden Polychromed Sculpture"

Kargère, Lucretia Goddard
2000
15 pages
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Lucretia Kargère

Lucretia Kargère is Conservator for Medieval sculptures at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has been the principal conservator for The Met Cloisters since 2002. She came to The Met in 1996, when she was awarded the first of several fellowships for the technical study and treatment of medieval sculpture. Lucretia has published a significant study of French Romanesque sculptures from the Museum collection, and is the co-author of The Conservation of Medieval Polychrome Wood Sculpture (Getty Publications 2020). She holds a BA from Brown University, and an MA in art history and advanced certificate in conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.

Selected publications

Marincola, Michele D., and Lucretia Kargère. The Conservation of Medieval Polychrome Wood Sculpture: History, Theory, Practice. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2020.

Kargère, Lucretia, Pierre-Yves Le Pogam, Juliette Lévy-Hinstin, and Nathalie Pingaud. “Un Christ roman auvergnatretrouve son unitégrâce à l'étude de la polychromie.” Technè 39 (2014): 60–65.

Kargère, Lucretia, and Adriana Rizzo. “Twelfth-Century French Polychrome Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Materials and Techniques.” Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology 1 (2010): 39–72.

Saint Roch, Oak, German
German
early 16th century