ART BREAK: CONSERVING AN ANCIENT BRONZE HORSE AND RIDER Thursday, September 14, 2023, at 12 pm ONLINE ONLY Free | Advance sign-up required Sign up here: https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3941.html A bronze statuette of a horse and rider freshly excavated in Albania recently arrived at the Getty Villa Museum, on loan for conservation treatment and display. Corroded and covered in soil, the object's treatment slowly revealed stunning details and exquisite craftsmanship, gradually shaping our understanding of this extraordinary find. Join conservator Susanne Gänsicke and curator Jens Daehner as they discuss the careful analysis, meticulous cleaning, and stabilizing treatment of this fragile piece, made around 500 BCE. SPEAKERS Susanne Gänsicke is head of antiquities conservation at the Getty Villa Museum. She graduated in Archaeological Conservation from the Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz, Germany in 1987. She was objects conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1990–2016, where she remains a project member of “The Auloi from Meroë” funded by the European Research Council. Her research interests include manufacturing techniques of ancient and historic metalwork, and the intersection of traditional craftsmanship and conservation. Jens Daehner has been a curator at the Getty Villa Museum for over 20 years. An expert in Greek and Roman sculpture, he curated several exhibitions exploring the history of archaeology, Roman imperial portraits and their modern copies, the role of ancient art in European modernism, as well as large-scale Hellenistic sculpture in bronze. His scholarship on these topics has been published widely in the form of books, articles, and catalogue contributions.