The Matter of Tang Tomb Figures

Author Biographies

• Isabelle Garachon

  Isabelle Garachon studied Archaeology and Conservation and Restoration of objets d’art at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris. From 1981 to 1989 she worked at a private restoration workshop in Amsterdam and at the Opleiding Restauratoren in Amsterdam. Since 1989 she has been Head of the Rijksmuseum’s Ceramics, Glass and Stone Workshop. Her key tasks include the safekeeping, conservation and exhibition of the 20,000 or so earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, glass and stone objects.

• Lucien van Valen

  Lucien van Valen holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and a PhD in Chinese Languages and Cultures from Leiden University. She combined both fields of expertise in her thesis: The Matter of Chinese Painting, Case Studies of 8th century Murals (Leiden 2005; http://hdl.handle.net/1887/3730). She specialized in the material aspects and technique of Chinese art. In 2010 she embarked on the research project on this group of Tang burial figures in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.