Dr Carol Richardson, Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Open University at the time and one of the convenors of the conference gives a brief welcome to the conference.  The conference was sponsored by Laurence King Publishing and Wiley-Blackwell.

Organised in collaboration with the Open University, this study day explored the role and practice of collaboration in the making of art and design during the Renaissance. The day examined collaborations between centres of production and between individuals, as well as the overlaps and exchange between different media, disciplines and countries. It included talks relating closely to the new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries by curators and conservators from the project team, and art historians from the Open University.