Tabula Gratulatoria Preface Rupert Featherstone and Ian McClure A letter Karin and Manfred Schoeller Acknowledgements Publications by Renate Woudhuysen-Keller Lucy Wrapson and Paul Woudhuysen Renate Woudhuysen-Keller: Zurich to Cambridge Ann Massing 'Hands on': personal reflections on teaching the practice of paintings conservation Anne van Grevenstein-Kruse and Ernst van der Wetering Technical studies and reconstructions Making reconstructions at the Hamilton Kerr Institute Mary Kempski Housewife chemistry Spike Bucklow Towards a new English Cennino Lara Broecke Reconstructing the exceptional: the decoration of the Wingfield organ Madeleine Katkov Aspects of painting technique in the Madonna and Child with St Anne attributed to Gian Giacomo Caprotti, called Salai Sue Ann Chui and Alan Phenix Reconstructing intermediate layers in early Netherlandish paintings Abbie Vandivere Sebastiano del Piombo's Adoration of the Shepherds: on the pursuit of colouristic splendour in a 'lost' painting Christine S. Kimbriel and Youjin Noh Reconstructing towards a better understanding: a study of missing underdrawings in Van Mierevelt's portraits Charlotte Caspers, Johanneke Verhave and Margreet Wolters Does the de Mayerne manuscript reflect contemporary studio practice? Alison Stock Further observations on Corot's late painting technique Kate Stonor, Sarah Herring and Hayley Tomlinson Shocking a mock-up: recreating the damages and historical treatments found in Edvard Munch's monumental Aula paintings to test materials and procedure for marouflaging a marouflage Karen Mengshoel, Mirjam Liu and Tine Frsaker Reconstructing red lakes in traditional paint systems Daniela Leonard '.And now you see it!': the use of digital reconstructions in painting conservation Chris Titmus Four weeks of work for four seconds of fame: reconstructions for television Rose Miller and Christine Patrick Case studies Reconstruction of the tin relief decoration on the Thornham Parva Retable Alice Tavares da Silva Being Paolo Uccello Nicola Christie Reconstructing the preparation layers of a late fifteenth-century panel painting from Seville Lara Broecke Preparing a copper panel for painting: a late sixteenth-century reconstruction Alison Stock Perspective: constructing a seventeenth-century Dutch interior Daniela Leonard The reconstruction of The Yarmouth Collection Jessica David Reconstruction of a fruit and flower piece by Jan van Os Spike Bucklow Copying Alfred Stevens' La Liseuse Rebecca Kench List of contributors.