| Niccolo CALDARARO |
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Conservator (USA)
Contact: Caldararo@aol.com
Conservation Art Service P.O. Box 77570, San Francisco, California 94107
Niccolo Caldararo is Director and Chief Conservator of Conservation Art
Service in San Francisco, a private conservation laboratory. He is
also an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at San Francisco State
University. He received his BA in Anthropology from the University of
California, Berkeley in 1970 after working in the Anthropology
Department's Archaeology Laboratory under J. Desmond Clark. He received
his MA in Anthropology with a specialization in archaeological
conservation in 1983 from San Francisco State University, having set up
a conservation laboratory at the University's Tiburon Center for
archaeological excavations on Da Silva Island for Dr. Gary Pahl.
Niccolo's research in conservation was concerned with the evolution of decision making with specific focus on treatment development by different conservators dealing with similar problems, and the durability of treatments over time. One publication that resulted from this research was published in Studies in Conservation, v. 42, 1997:157-164 on painted surfaces on ceramic and glass. Another was just published in the AIC Objects Specialty Group's Postprints for the 2004 Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon mainly on the use of ultrasound and benefited form work with Robert Organ and John Asmus. Today his research is organized around how different peoples preserve their heritage in contrast with his nearly 20 CAP reports on specific museums and historical societies in the USA in the past 20 years. Niccolo has been employed by a number of museums over the past 30 years including the California Academy of Sciences, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the De Young Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.
Papers:
The Mysterious Case of an Art Collector Extraordinary Found by Examination of a Painting [Article in Issue 4, April 2008] |