Aviva Burnstock
Aviva Ruth Burnstock (born 1959)
In 2011 Burnstock was member of a team that confirmed in the BBC One television series Fake or Fortune? that the painting The Procuress in the Courtauld's collection – a version of a 1622 work by Dirck van Baburen now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – is an Oil paint-Bakelite forgery by Han van Meegeren made in the 1930s or 1940s.[3][4] She has since made several appearances on the programme.
She is Fellow of the
Personal life
She is the daughter of the
.Selected publications
- "The application of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to the examination of painting materials with special reference to cleaning and blanching", Thesis (Ph.D.), Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1991
- "A technical study of Cassone panels from the Courtauld Gallery", Tilly Schmidt, Caroline Campbell, Aviva Burnstock, for Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung ZKK 23/2 2010, 315-326, ISSN 0931-7198
- "Impressionist paintings In the Courtauld Gallery: making inferences from recent technical studies", Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung ZKK 2009/1 72-79.
- "Water sensitivity of modern artists’ oil paints", L. Mills, A. Burnstock, H. van Keulen, F. Duarte and K.J. van den Berg, ICOM Committee for Conservation 15th Triennial Meeting, New Delhi, 2008, .651-659.
- "A non-invasive XRF study supported by multivariate statistical analysis and reflectance FTIR to assess the composition of modern painting materials", Francesca Rossi, Aviva Burnstock, Klaas JanVan den Berg, Costanza Miliani, Brunetto Giovanni Brunetti and Antonio Sgamellotti, Spectrochimica Acta vol 71/5 2009, 1655-1662.
- Painting in Britain, 1500-1630 : production, influences, and patronage. Cooper, Tarnya; Burnstock, Aviva; Howard, Maurice; Town, Edward, eds. (First ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197265840. OCLC 907131366.
References
- ^ Aviva Burnstock. Debrett's People of Today, 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013. Archived here.
- ^ Aviva Burnstock. The Courtauld Institute, 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2013. Archived here.
- ^ Master forgery: '17th century work exposed as a fake'. by Dalya Alberge, telegraph.co.uk, 2 July 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2013. Archived here.
- ^ The Procuress: Fake or Mistake? Courtauld Institute of Art, 4 July 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2013. Archived here.
- ^ "Professor Aviva Burnstock".
- ^ Robyn Williams: Professor Geoffrey Burnstock, neurobiologist, science.org.au (July 2008)
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