Elizabeth Provost is a second year Ph.D. student at BGC. Her SSHRC-funded research examines the material, cultural, and social histories of early modern Italian sculpture, with particular attention to histories of restoration and the material lives and afterlives of objects. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Science in chemistry and art history from the University of Toronto and a Master of Art Conservation from Queen’s University, where she developed a non-destructive method for analyzing organic patinas on Renaissance bronzes. She has contributed to the Bernini’s Bronzes technical studies project and served as a research fellow for the Renaissance and Baroque Polychrome Sculpture in Rome and Lazio database project. Elizabeth hosts Matter of Art, a podcast dedicated to bringing art historical scholarship to wider audiences.