A Terracotta "Madonna and Child with a Book"

Hannah Higham is currently completing her PhD thesis on the Master of the Unruly Children at the University of Birmingham. She has worked extensively in museums and galleries, and this has informed her approach to object-based research. She now teaches occasionally at the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick.

Aleth Lorne graduated from the Université Paris-Sorbonne as a historian and restorer of polychrome on wood. She has been working in her own restoration studio in The Hague since 1992. She restores and researches polychromed statues for Dutch institutions. She also carried out several research projects in the field of ethnographic and synthetic materials for the Central Laboratory in Amsterdam and later for the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage.