Valentina Risdonne

Biographic Data

ID6877384
NAMEValentina Risdonne
GIVEN NAMESValentina
FAMILY NAMERisdonne
SIGNATURERISDONNE V
AFFILIATIONSVictoria and Albert Museum
ORCID0000-0002-0063-4156
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Analysis and Conservation of Two Post-Pharaonic Burial Shrouds in the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum

    Open AccessKaty Smith, Carolina Jimenez Gray et al.ARTICLEHeritage2026References: 1

    The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has two ancient Egyptian painted burial shrouds in its collection. Both dating to between the 1st century BCE and early 2nd century CE, they were examined and conserved in preparation for display in the 2025 exhibition ‘Making Egypt’. A nearly intact shroud depicts a woman in the form of Hathor, whilst an incomplete shroud depicts a man as Osiris. Both shrouds would have been placed over mummified bodies, …

  • Mexican Lacquer at the Victoria and Albert Museum

    Open AccessValentina Risdonne, Ludovico Geminiani et al.ARTICLEHeritage2024References: 8

    This study investigates the materials and techniques used in three Mexican platters, or bateas, from the Victoria and Albert Museum collection. Our analytical approach included the use of non-invasive techniques, such as infrared reflectography, scanning X-ray fluorescence, and digital microscopy, which informed limited but targeted sampling. Traditional pigments were identified, including indigo, carbon black, red lead, lead white, and orpiment,…

  • A Recently Identified Barniz Brillante Casket at Bateman’s, the Home of Rudyard Kipling

    Open AccessLudovico Geminiani, Maria Sanchez Carvajal et al.ARTICLEHeritage2024References: 3

    A casket held at Bateman’s, Rudyard and Caroline Kipling’s home in Sussex—now a National Trust property—was recently recognised as a barniz brillante work. Objects made of barniz brillante, a technique featuring the Indigenous American material called mopa mopa, are relatively rare and have only sparingly been studied using scientific analysis techniques. A collaboration between the National Trust and the Victoria and Albert Museum has produced s…

  • Mopa Mopa and Barniz de Pasto at the Victoria and Albert Museum

    Open AccessLucia Burgio, Nick Humphrey et al.ARTICLEHeritage2024Cited by: 2References: 2

    This paper summarises the research carried out so far on barniz de Pasto objects from the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and outlines future areas of development for our collection of Indigenous lacquer from Latin America. The V&A was the first UK public institution to identify objects decorated with barniz de Pasto within its collection. Two of these were acquired in 2015 and 2018; others had entered the collection between 1855 and 1902 but we…

  • The Victoria and Albert Museum Plaster Casts by the Nineteenth-Century Workshops of the Notre-Dame Cathedral

    Open AccessValentina Risdonne, Adriana Francescutto Miró et al.ARTICLEHeritage2022References: 2

    Four nineteenth-century casts of the decoration on the north side of the exterior of the apse of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris are held in the plaster casts collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The casts were manufactured by two different nineteenth-century workshops, one run by Jean Pouzadoux and the other by Auguste Malzieux. After an assessment of the condition of the casts, a scientific analysis allowed the characteriza…

  • Investigation of Burmese lacquer methods

    Open AccessRisdonne, Valentina Risdonne et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cultural Heritage2018Cited by: 2References: 1