Elizabeth Provost

Stream: Conservation Science
Specialization: Early modern art
Areas of interest: Organic coatings on bronzes, patina, material science, technical studies of art, Renaissance and Baroque paintings and sculptures

Elizabeth Provost is an emerging museum professional and conservation scientist born and raised in Montréal, Québec. She completed her Honours Bachelor of Science with high distinction at the University of Toronto studying Chemistry and Art History. During her undergrad she served as Research Assistant for the Bernini’s Bronzes project—a technical study of GianLorenzo Bernini’s corpus of bronze works along with art theoretical, historical, and archival research of his production. She worked alongside an art historian, sculpture conservators, material and computer scientists—notably, Distinguished Professor of Early Modern Art at UofT, Evonne Levy, and material scientist and Bader Chair in Art Conservation at Queen’s, Aaron Shugar.
Elizabeth is now completing her two-year Master of Art Conservation with Dr. Shugar developing a non-destructive analytical protocol for the study of organic coatings made from oils and resins applied to bronze Renaissance sculpture.