Highlights from the Heritage Science Group at the Symposium of the CNR-INO
In December 2025, the Heritage Science Group of the National Institute of Optics (CNR-INO) took part in the[…]
Reproducing Fire-Born Soot to Advance Cleaning Research: New Results from the MOXY Project
Understanding how to safely and effectively remove soot from cultural heritage objects is a pressing challenge—particularly in[…]
What can modern science reveal about the world’s earliest photographs?
A new study by researchers from CNR-INO, in collaboration with colleagues from CNR-ISPC Catania and the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, has[…]
A New Platform for Non-Invasive Analysis of Painted Surfaces: Integrating 3D Scanning and SSE TM Raman Mapping
A recent study, “Spatially registered 3D and sequentially shifted Raman mapping for painted surface characterization“, presents a[…]
New Insights into Historical Dry Plate Negatives
Dry plate photographic negatives, introduced in the late 19th century, represent a turning point in the history[…]
The joint CNR-INO and OPD Optical Metrology laboratory: a successful model for the conservation of Italian cultural heritage
On the 12th of November 1998, Tito Arecchi, the esteemed Director of the National Institute of Optics,[…]
Art and Science: HSG study Artemisia’s Allegory of Inclination with 3D digital technology
The Artemisia UpClose project is sponsored by Calliope Arts and Christian Levett, in collaboration with Fondazione Casa[…]
Contactless analysis on a drawing by Raffaello Sanzio
Are you interested in Italian Renaissance drawing or paper #conservation? Read the recent paper published in Nature[…]
Special issue: Invitation to submit
The MDPI Open Access Publishing – Applied sciences will publish a Special Issue entitled: “Beyond the surface:[…]