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How photochemistry can help preserve the colours of art
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,...
IPERION CH : a success story in Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities integration
Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) integration into RI Horizon 2020 considers the socio-economic sciences and humanities (SSH) as cross-cutting and integrated into all the priorities and objectives of the Programme. European research...
IPERION CH: Putting together the pieces of Europe’s cultural heritage puzzle
Working together to establish a European research infrastructure for Cultural Heritage Researchers with the EU-funded IPERION CH project are working to establish a European research infrastructure dedicated to the conservation, interpretation,...
PhD Studentship: Signal and Image Processing for Art Investigation – Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London
A fully-funded three-years PhD studentship Duration of study: Full Time- three years fixed term Starting date: 1st October 2018 Application deadline: 31st July 2017 (or until filled) Supervisor: Dr Miguel Rodrigues A fully-funded three-years PhD...
Papyri: Cutting-edge methodologies applied for discovering their secrets
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...
3rd IPERION CH DSS – deadline postponed (6th June)
GOOD NEWS about the 3rd IPERION CH Doctoral Summer School in Italy Due to several requires arrived after the closing of the inscription, the deadline for participating in the 3rd IPERION CH Doctoral Summer School has been POSTPONED to the 6th June....
How spectral imaging and archival data can help the understanding of art
Hot paper The communication published in Angewandte Chemie (IF 11.994) by research group of Raffaella Fontana, CNR-INO, has been selected as a HOT PAPER for its importance in a rapidly evolving field of high current interest. In collaboration with the...
Lacona 2018: the 12th conference on Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks – September 2018 – Call for abstracts
The 12th edition of the Lacona conference on Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks The 12th edition of the LACONA conference will be held in Paris from 10 to 14 September 2018 at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine. The aim of Lacona XII .is to...
The 2018 Gordon Research Conference and Seminar “Scientific Methods in Cultural Heritage Research” – July, 2018
The 2018 Gordon Research Conference and seminar: a IPERION CH event The 2018 Gordon Research Conference and Seminar “Scientific Methods in Cultural Heritage Research” is an official IPERION CH event. It will be held for the first time outside the US, in...