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Antiquity in plaster : production, reception and destruction of plaster copies from
the Athenian Agora to Felix Meritis in Amsterdam
Godin, F.T.J.
Publication date 2009
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Godin, F. T. J. (2009). Antiquity in plaster : production, reception and destruction of plaster copies from the Athenian Agora to Felix Meritis in Amsterdam.
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Biography of the author
Frederik Theodoor Johannes Godin was born in The Hague at the 21st of April 1955. He grew up in Rotterdam, where he attended the Lagere Technische School obtaining in 1972 a diploma in electrotechnics. During the following years he was an apprentice under the art-painter Jan van Loon, who was also a teacher at the Kunstacademie Minerva in Groningen. Subsequently he studied at the Christelijk Cultureel Studiecentrum in Rijswijk and attended the Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Rotterdam. He was also a residential student at the L’abri Fellowship in Eck en Wiel, which is associated with Hans Rookmaaker, one time professor of the History of Art at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. In 1980 the Atheneum diploma was obtained at the Avondcollege Noctua in The Hague.
From 1980 untill 1988 he studied Art History at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, and Classical Archaeology at the Universiteit Leiden where a masters degree in both disciplines was obtained. As an undergraduate student he worked at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam and participated in the excavations at Satricum (the present Borgo Le Ferriere, Italy), under the auspices of the Nederlands Instituut in Rome and led by professor Coen Stibbe.
In 1989 he worked as an apprentice pictureframe-maker with the firm ‘Mello & Stiller Mastercraftsmen in Wood’ in London. He was also involved in several building and restoration projects, among which the restauration of a Chinese junk (type of ship).
Since 1996 he is an associated scholar of the Huizinga Instituut (Research Institute of Cultural History) of the University of Amsterdam. As a free-lance writer he published several articles and book-reviews.
From 2002 untill 2005 he was employed as a registrar of collections at the Legermuseum in Delft followed by the same position at the Nederlands Goud- Zilver- en Klokkenmuseum in Schoonhoven. In 2007 he was appointed as an assistant-archivist at the archaeological depot of the Province of Zuid-Holland. Since 2008 he works as a documentalist at the Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie in The Hague.
