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Odile Baÿentered the paintings conservation department of the Louvre Museum to work on the

Campana Collection in 1967; she was later appointed director of the department, which by then

served all of the museums in France. She collaborated with the cabinetmaker René Perche until

his retirement and then with his successor, Daniel Jaunard of the Atelier Claude Huot, until her

retirement in 1989.

Ségolène Bergeonbecame a professor of physics in 1965 and a museum conservator in 1969. She

joined the Service de Restauration des Peintures des Musées Nationaux in 1970, serving as direc-

tor from 1981 to 1988. Her career has included work at the Villa Medicis and the International

Centre for the Study of the Preservation and the Restoration of Cultural Property, Rome

(ICCROM), and she became the president of the ICCROM Council in 1993. She is the author of

several publications and has curated several conservation exhibitions.

George Bisaccais a conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he has

worked since 1983, and holds an adjunct professorship at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York

University. He trained in paintings conservation at the Palazzo Pitti with Andrea Rothe and Alfio

Del Serra and specialized in the treatment of panel paintings with Renzo Turchi and Giovanni

Marrusich of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure.

Robert A. Blanchette,Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the

University of Minnesota at Minneapolis St. Paul. He has written numerous scientific articles and

reviews on degradation processes of living trees and wood products and has coauthored two

books dealing with microbial degradation of wood. His current research involves biodeterioration

of archaeological wood from terrestrial and aquatic environments, as well as the development of

conservation methods for decayed wood.

Simon Bobak,conservator of paintings, currently works in London. He is a fellow of the

International Institute for Conservation. He also holds the position of honorary chief conservator

at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge, England.

David Bomford,who is now senior restorer of paintings at the National Gallery, London, joined

that institution as a junior restorer in 1968, after postgraduate research in chemistry; he was

trained by Helmut Ruhemann. At the National Gallery, Bomford has worked on a large number

of paintings and has lectured and published widely, especially on the study of European painting

techniques. He was coorganizer and coauthor of the award-winning series of exhibitions and cata-

logues called “Art in the Making,” on the subjects of Rembrandt, fourteenth-century Italian paint-

ing, and Impressionism, and he also served for ten years as editor of the international journal

Studies in Conservation. In addition, Bomford serves as secretary-general of the International

Institute for Conservation. In 1996–97, he was the first conservator to become Slade Professor

ofFine Art at Oxford University.

Jacqueline Bretis an engineer and a physicist at the Institut de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles

de Lyon. She holds an advanced degree from the Ecole du Louvre and is a research specialist with

the Service de Restauration des Musées de France, Petite Ecurie du Roy, Versailles.

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