25 years after the signing of the first CNR – National Institute of Optics and Opificio delle Pietre Dure di Firenze (Ministry of Culture) collaboration agreement, they renew the collaboration agreement signed in 1998, setting themselves a decidedly ambitious but realistic goal: to create, together, an integrated laboratory of chemical-physical investigations equipped with unique and […]
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Scientific analysis revealed the original shapes of a painting by Artemisia Gentileschi
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On the 12th of November 1998, Tito Arecchi, the esteemed Director of the National Institute of Optics, joined forces with Giorgio Bonsanti, the eminent Superintendent of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, to formalize an agreement that would solidify the scientific collaboration of the two institutes. This collaboration, which had already been flourishing for years under […]
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In the framework of Advanced Raman spectroscopy project, the Heritage Science Group (HSG) published an article titled “Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for madder lake detection in painting layers” in The European Physical Journal Plus. The HSG has created and analysed several types of lakes according to historical recipes and characterized them with X-ray diffraction (XRD), IR, […]
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Il gruppo Heritage Science dell’Istituto Nazionale di Ottica entra per la prima volta ai Musei Reali di Torino per fare analisi diagnostiche sulla Venere di Botticelli, appartenuta alla collezione Gualino. Ispirata alla Venere pudica dell’antichità che si copre il corpo con le mani ed i capelli, la figura emerge da uno sfondo scuro incorniciata da […]
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The Artemisia UpClose project is sponsored by Calliope Arts and Christian Levett, in collaboration with Fondazione Casa Buonarroti at the Buonarroti Museum. In this video, Physicist Raffaella Fontana, Director of Research, tells about the conservation of Artemisia’s Allegory of Inclination using 3D digital technology. The project is hosted in The Opificio delle Pietre Dure (OPD), […]
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In the framework of the DIAGNOSE project, an article titled “The Colors of the Butterfly Wings: Non-Invasive Microanalytical Studies of Hand-Coloring Materials in 19th-Century Daguerreotypes” has been published in the Heritage journal as part of the special issue “Colour Photography and Film: Analysis, Preservation, and Conservation of Analogue and Digital Materials“, curated by Marcello Picollo […]
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Are you interested in Italian Renaissance drawing or paper #conservation? Read the recent paper published in Nature Portfolio by the Istituto Nazionale di Ottica del CNR Heritage Science group, in collaboration with the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, on the contactless analysis of a drawing by Raffaello Sanzio Link to the article: https://rdcu.be/cVJrh
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The research reporting on the prototype for the reflectance photoacoustic imaging applied for the first time in the Heritage Science field appears as the cover story of Journal of Imaging. The research reinforces the fruitful collaboration between the Heritage Science Group of CNR-INO and IESL-FORTH. The image is part of the article “Revealing Hidden Features […]
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MOLAB analysis with multispectral VIS NIR in Oslo at the Munch Museum
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