The following presenters of international importance will attend, like for example Isabel Horovitz (The Painting Conservation Studio from London), Jørgen Wadum (Centre for Art Technological Studies and Conservation CATS from Copenhaguen), Alison Stock (City & Guilds of London Art School from London), Nico Broers (École Saint Luc from Liège), Anne Schmid (Fondation Beyeler from Basel), Lucía Martínez (Prado Museum) or Leslie Carlyle (Nova University of Lisbon from Portugal), among others.

Painting on metal plates was, along with traditional resources like canvas and table, one of the most common pictorial resources in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The result are works of extraordinary quality which suffer from important damages because of the peculiar features of the resource. In some cases, these paintings suppose real challenges for the restorers who are responsible for working on their conservation. Because of this complexity there is a need of celebrating a symposium on this area which received a very detailed attention by specialists who will now gather for the first time in Valencia in order to look for solutions that alleviate these damages by exchanging experiences on different study cases. This will make it possible to establish some guidelines to retain these singular works.