New York; David Bomford of the National Gallery, London; and Ian
McClure of the Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge, are also reflected in
these proceedings. For their assistance, we are very grateful.
In addition to the above, a number of other people lent their
expertise as reviewers. These include Joseph Fronek, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art; David Grattan and Gregory Young, Canadian
Conservation Institute; Bruce Hoadley, Department of Forestry and
Wildlife Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Robert
Krahmer, College of Forestry, Oregon State University; Paolo Mora, for-
mer chief restorer at the Istituto Centrale del Restauro, Rome; James T.
Rice, Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia;
Wayne Wilcox, Forest Products Laboratory, University of California.
Finally, we would like to thank Neville Agnew, associate director,
programs, at the Getty Conservation Institute, for overseeing the various
stages of the publication of this volume. Very special thanks are extended
to the volume’s managing editor, Tevvy Ball, whose fine eye and sure
touch succeeded in taming a sometimes unruly manuscript. In this he was
assisted by Sylvia Tidwell, who skillfully and scrupulously copyedited the
manuscript; Elizabeth Maggio, Barbara Harshav, and Michelle Buchholtz,
who assisted with translations from Italian and French; and Joy Hartnett,
Scott Patrick Wagner, and Kimberly Kostas, who helped attend to the myr-
iad details involved in preparing these proceedings for publication.
Kathleen Dardes Andrea Rothe
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