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Dr Marta Kamińska

A graduate of the Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (2011), MA thesis: Old and modern methods of conservation and restoration of stained glass on the example of the stained glass window “St Peter” from the collections of the Jagiellonian University Museum Collegium Maius in Krakow. She studied in the Glass Conservation Laboratory at the University of Antwerp as part of the Erasmus programme. She participated in the "CONSTGLASS Conservation Materials for Stained Glass Windows" EU-Research Project (2010). In the years 2013–2016, she was employed as the main researcher in the research project "The use of modern physio-chemical methods and digital image analysis in the documentation, research and conservation of historic stained glass, on the example of a group of fourteen medieval stained-glass windows from Grodziec", carried out at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. In 2016, she obtained a PhD in the fine arts. Her doctoral thesis entitled "The Methodology of stained-glass investigation on the example of fourteen medieval stained-glass panels from the Grodziec Collection" was awarded by the General Conservator of Monuments and the Association of Monument Conservators.

In the years 2016–2019, she was employed as research assistant in the Studio of Stained Glass and Glass of the Faculty of Art Conservation and Restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. She currently works in Shanghai at Shanghai University of Engineering Science. A member of Corpus Vitrearum Polska since 2014.

Selected publications in the field of stained-glass research:

Dobrosława Horzela, Marta Kamińska, Kwatery witrażowe z dawnej kolekcji Zamoyskich w Adampolu. W kręgu dolnosaskiej sztuki około 1200, „Rozprawy Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie”, 10, 2017, p. 33–75.

Edyta Bernady, Marta Kamińska, Michał Płotek, Małgorzata Walczak, Severe Paint Loss from Stained-glass Windows: Causes and Conservation Challenges, w: Art at The Surface: Creation, Recognition and Conservation, The 10^th Forum for the Conservation and Technology of Historic Stained Glass, Cambridge 3^rd-5^th September 2017, ed. Sandra Brown, Claudine Loisel, Aletta Rambaut, Ivo Rauch, Sebastian Strobl and Sophie Wolf, York 2017, p. 92–101.

Małgorzata Walczak, Marta Kamińska, Joanna Sobczyk, Michał Płotek, Dobrosława Horzela, Marcin Sylwestrzak, Piotr Targowski, The Application of Non-invasive Analytical Techniques in the Investigation and Documentation of Medieval Stained-Glass Windows from the Grodziec Collection, w: Recent Advances in Glass and Ceramics Conservation 2016, ed. Hannelore Roemich, Laurent Fair, Wrocław 2016, p. 21–30.

Marta Kamińska, Małgorzata Walczak, Maria Płotek, Elżbieta Gajewska-Prorok, Witraże z Grodźca – badania, konserwacja i restauracja trzech kwater witrażowych ze zbiorów Muzeum Narodowego we Wrocławiu, „Szkło i Ceramika” VI, 2015, nr 3, p. 14–17.

Marta Kamińska, Edyta Bernady, Michał Płotek, Zofia Kaszowska, Małgorzata Walczak, The Throne of Grace – the History and Conservation Strategy for a Medieval Stained-Glass Panel from the Dominican Monastery in Kraków, Poland, w: Recent Advances in Glass and Ceramics Conservation 2016, ed. Hannelore Roemich, Laurent Fair, Wrocław 2016, p. 43–51.

Małgorzata Walczak, Marta Kamińska, Paweł Karaszkiewicz, Jacek Szczerbiński, Marek Szymoński, The preliminary results on the investigation of historic stained Glass panels from Grodziec Collection, Proc. SPIE 8790, "Optics for Arts, Architecture, and Archaeology IV", 87901F (May 30, 2013), doi:10.1117/12.2021197.

Marta Kamińska, Paweł Karaszkiewicz, Dawne i współczesne metody konserwacji i restauracji witraży na przykładzie witrażu Św. Piotr ze zbiorów Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius w Krakowie, „Opuscula Musealia" 22, 2014, p. 123–136.

Most important works in the field of conservation and restoration of stained glass:

• 2018 restoration of the Coronation of the Virgin stained-glass window (15^th century) from the the Dominican church in Krakow

• 2017 research and conservation of two medieval (13^th century) stained-glass windows from the former Zamoyski collection in Adampol

• 2016 conservation and restoration of the Ascension stained-glass window (16^th century), Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes

• 2016 conservation and restoration of the Peacocks stained-glass window (1912), designed by Henryk Uziembło, Society of the Friends of Fine Arts

• 2014 study of the God the Father – Become! stained-glass window from the Franciscan church in Krakow

• 2013–2016 research on a set of stained-glass windows from Grodziec from the collection of the Jagiellonian University Museum in Krakow and the National Museum in Wrocław (in 2013–2014 conservation and restoration of three panels)

• 2010–2011 studies, conservation and restoration of the St Peter stained-glass window from the collection of the Jagiellonian University Museum in Krakow (as part of the diploma work)

• 2010 conservation and restoration of a 17^th-century heraldic stained-glass window from the collection of prof. Joost Caen (Antwerp)