Karen Trentelman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5591274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Trentelman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Trentelman |
| SIGNATURE | TRENTELMAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Getty Conservation Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2125-6166 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Getty Peacock Fresco
Acquired by J. Paul Getty himself in 1968, the Getty Museum’s fragment of a fresco depicting a peacock (68.AG.13) has long been a favorite among visitors. Hitherto considered to be an ancient Roman work produced in Campania circa 70 CE, it has been reproduced as museum merchandise, textbook illustrations, and gift-shop decor. Recent technical examination and analyses combined with historical research, however, reveal that the popular peacock is n…
Vittae Auratae
Fifty-six gold fragments—forty-nine pieces of woven textile and seven of twisted cord—from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum were the subject of an art historical and scientific study to ascertain their original form, function, and method of manufacture. The fragments were examined through the use of noninvasive technologies, including digital microscopy, X-radiography, scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopic (S…
Portrait of an Etruscan Athletic Official
The Getty’s Etruscan painted terracotta wall panel, Athletic Official, recently has been speculated to be associated with a Caeretan wall panel depicting a Discobolus based on a shared iconography. To better understand the materials and techniques used to create the Getty panel and investigate its relation to extant Etruscan painted terracotta panels, a multi-analytical study was conducted, using broadband visible, IR, and UV imaging, along with …
Material evidence for the use of Attic white-ground lekythoi ceramics in cremation burials
A Technical Study of the Rosebud Winter Count
Plains Indian drawings and historical records produced in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries made progressively greater use of nontraditional drawing materials such as commercial colored pencils, crayons, ink and watercolors. Similarly, cloth and paper begin to supplant traditional hide supports during this period. These non-traditional materials rarely have been studied in this context, yet their dates of manufacture and subsequent ava…
Characterization of Coral Red Slips on Greek Attic Pottery
Samples of red and black gloss from Greek Attic pottery of the late sixth to fifth centuries bc were examined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM and FIB/STEM). The focus of the study was the chemical and microstructural characterization of the red gloss that was first produced during this period. Two groupings of red gloss were revealed. One red was found to be compositionally similar to the black glosses (labelled ‘LCM coral red’). The othe…
Romano‐egyptian Red Lead Pigment
Samples of red pigment from a group of seven Roman‐period Egyptian mummies, known as red‐shroud mummies, are investigated. Elemental analysis by inductively coupled plasma time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry (ICP–TOFMS) shows that the samples contain mostly Pb (83–92% by weight), along with 0.2–2.0% Sn. All of the samples are found to have similar trace element distributions when normalized to the continental crust, suggesting that they share a comm…
Romano‐egyptian Red Lead Pigment
Samples of red pigment from a group of seven Roman‐period Egyptian mummies, known as red‐shroud mummies, are investigated. Elemental analysis by inductively coupled plasma time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry (ICP–TOFMS) shows that the samples contain mostly Pb (83–92% by weight), along with 0.2–2.0% Sn. All of the samples are found to have similar trace element distributions when normalized to the continental crust, suggesting that they share a comm…
Characterization of Coral Red Slips on Greek Attic Pottery
Samples of red and black gloss from Greek Attic pottery of the late sixth to fifth centuries bc were examined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM and FIB/STEM). The focus of the study was the chemical and microstructural characterization of the red gloss that was first produced during this period. Two groupings of red gloss were revealed. One red was found to be compositionally similar to the black glosses (labelled ‘LCM coral red’). The othe…
Portrait of an Etruscan Athletic Official
The Getty’s Etruscan painted terracotta wall panel, Athletic Official, recently has been speculated to be associated with a Caeretan wall panel depicting a Discobolus based on a shared iconography. To better understand the materials and techniques used to create the Getty panel and investigate its relation to extant Etruscan painted terracotta panels, a multi-analytical study was conducted, using broadband visible, IR, and UV imaging, along with …
Material evidence for the use of Attic white-ground lekythoi ceramics in cremation burials
A Technical Study of the Rosebud Winter Count
Plains Indian drawings and historical records produced in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries made progressively greater use of nontraditional drawing materials such as commercial colored pencils, crayons, ink and watercolors. Similarly, cloth and paper begin to supplant traditional hide supports during this period. These non-traditional materials rarely have been studied in this context, yet their dates of manufacture and subsequent ava…
Material evidence for the use of Attic white-ground lekythoi ceramics in cremation burials
A Technical Study of the Rosebud Winter Count
Plains Indian drawings and historical records produced in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries made progressively greater use of nontraditional drawing materials such as commercial colored pencils, crayons, ink and watercolors. Similarly, cloth and paper begin to supplant traditional hide supports during this period. These non-traditional materials rarely have been studied in this context, yet their dates of manufacture and subsequent ava…
Characterization of Coral Red Slips on Greek Attic Pottery
Samples of red and black gloss from Greek Attic pottery of the late sixth to fifth centuries bc were examined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM and FIB/STEM). The focus of the study was the chemical and microstructural characterization of the red gloss that was first produced during this period. Two groupings of red gloss were revealed. One red was found to be compositionally similar to the black glosses (labelled ‘LCM coral red’). The othe…
Romano‐egyptian Red Lead Pigment
Samples of red pigment from a group of seven Roman‐period Egyptian mummies, known as red‐shroud mummies, are investigated. Elemental analysis by inductively coupled plasma time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry (ICP–TOFMS) shows that the samples contain mostly Pb (83–92% by weight), along with 0.2–2.0% Sn. All of the samples are found to have similar trace element distributions when normalized to the continental crust, suggesting that they share a comm…
Vittae Auratae
Fifty-six gold fragments—forty-nine pieces of woven textile and seven of twisted cord—from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum were the subject of an art historical and scientific study to ascertain their original form, function, and method of manufacture. The fragments were examined through the use of noninvasive technologies, including digital microscopy, X-radiography, scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopic (S…
Portrait of an Etruscan Athletic Official
The Getty’s Etruscan painted terracotta wall panel, Athletic Official, recently has been speculated to be associated with a Caeretan wall panel depicting a Discobolus based on a shared iconography. To better understand the materials and techniques used to create the Getty panel and investigate its relation to extant Etruscan painted terracotta panels, a multi-analytical study was conducted, using broadband visible, IR, and UV imaging, along with …
The Getty Peacock Fresco
Acquired by J. Paul Getty himself in 1968, the Getty Museum’s fragment of a fresco depicting a peacock (68.AG.13) has long been a favorite among visitors. Hitherto considered to be an ancient Roman work produced in Campania circa 70 CE, it has been reproduced as museum merchandise, textbook illustrations, and gift-shop decor. Recent technical examination and analyses combined with historical research, however, reveal that the popular peacock is n…
Archaeology (6 works) · Conservation Techniques and Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Building materials and conservation (5 works) · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (3 works) · Materials Science (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Attic (2 works)