Tree rings, paint chips, and faded text : using technology and period documents in interpreting the American Wing period rooms / a lecture by Cynthia Van Allen Schaffner ; introduced by Beth Carver Wees.
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Event
Lecture given May 30, 2009 as part of the reopening of the new American Wing and the ongoing series "Saturday at the Met" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Summary
Cynthia Van Allen Schaffner discusses the reinterpretation and reconfiguration of the period rooms which required a variety of processes such as dendrochronology and pigment analysis, and constant comparisons between the before and after layouts of the rooms.
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