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during 1994, provided help with the translation of some German manuscripts. Ellen South, staff
assistant at the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) Museum Research Laboratory helped with
the organization of the illustrations and tables and also carried out a considerable amount
of correspondence work and permissions assistance. I would also like to thank the following
members of the scientific staff, past and present, at the Getty Conservation Institute, although
the list is by no means complete: Francesca Bewer, Eric Doehne, Eric Hansen, William S. Ginell,
Herant Khajian, Narayan Khandekar, Michael Schilling, Dusan Stulik, Alberto Tagle, and Arie
Wallert. In addition, Valerie Greathouse and Thomas Shreves of the GCI Information Center
were unreservedly helpful in locating difficult references through the Getty databases and other
library resources. I would also like to thank the following people at the J. Paul Getty Museum
for their valuable help: Jane Bassett, Brian Considine, Maya Elston, Joe Godla, Abby Hykin,
Jerry Podany, and Lisbet Thoresen.
I am particularly grateful to Neville Agnew, principal project specialist at the Getty Con­
servation Institute, who, as group director of Information and Communications at the GCI,
readily accepted the idea of publishing this book when the manuscript was still in gestation.
Ultimately, for their continued support, I am most grateful to Timothy Whalen, director of the
Getty Conservation Institute, and to Miguel Angel Corzo, the Institute's former director, for
approving the publication; and to Deborah Gribbon and John Walsh, director and former direc­
tor of the J. Paul Getty Museum, respectively, for allowing access to relevant museum depart­
ments. To all, I feel fortunate to have had the benefit of their presence and advice.
Finally, I would like to extend my appreciation to members of the staff of Getty Publica­
tions and the consultants who worked with them to bring this book to light, particularly Dinah
Berland, publications coordinator, who skillfully managed the myriad editorial aspects of this
project; Elizabeth Maggio, who copyedited the text; Scott Patrick Wagner, who input revisions
and edited the references; Amita Molloy, who coordinated the book's production; and Jim
Drobka, who designed the book.
A book such as this can never represent more than the personal preferences of the author
when working on such a broad canvas. As new work is published and new research on this wide-
ranging topic continues to be generated, some portions of the text may appear to undergo accel­
erated aging, but hopefully the majority of the text will serve as an informative review for many
years to come.

Note
1 Lucretius De verum natura (On the nature of the
universe), ca. 5 0 B . C . E . (Lucretius i96i:i).

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