by Laura Benassi | Nov 23, 2018 | News, Science stories, special news
Azra and the fabric of the king ARCHLAB experience in OPD (BBK proposal) In the early 60s, Pavo Andelić, a curator at the National Museum of Bosnia & Herzegovina, connected some archaeological remains to the archaeological site of the medieval church of St. Nicola...
by Elisa Andreassi | Nov 6, 2018 | Other, Science stories
An integrated approach to the monitoring of cleaning Time, inexorably, spreads a patina over artworks. Sometimes, it is human intervention itself, especially ancient retouching and restoration, which heavily affects the original artwork’s appearance....
by Laura Benassi | Oct 29, 2018 | News, Science stories
A researcher at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure: Andreas Sampatakos This science story mixes together two elements: a laboratory of carpentry and a specific genre of paintings: the icons. The Laboratory of carpentry is a section of the Opificio delle Pietre...
by Laura Benassi | Jul 5, 2018 | Science stories
MOLAB at Villa Sciarra in Rome, Italy Donatella Buttiglione, art conservator, presented a proposal (VSWP) to MOLAB asking for some non-invasive analysis to apply on the whitewashed wall paintings in the reading room of the historical library located in Casino Nobile...
by Laura Benassi | Jun 19, 2018 | News, Other, Publication, Science stories
How the absorption of light changes the colours of art There are some interesting news in photochemistry applied to art. Costanza Miliani, CNR, and her colleagues, after investigating how photodegradation provokes irreversible colour changes in works of art,...
by Laura Benassi | Jun 6, 2018 | News, Science stories
Innovative techniques applied to papyri from Hercolaneum Two different experiments were conducted on opistographic papyri from Herculaneum at the local Officina dei Papiri Ercolanesi in February and May 2018 thanks to the joint initiative of the National Library...
