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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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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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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MOLAB analysis with multispectral VIS NIR in Oslo at the Munch Museum
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The MDPI Open Access Publishing – Applied sciences will publish a Special Issue entitled: “Beyond the surface: Novel Non-Destructive Techniques to Explore Works of Art”.Today the variety of artistic materials requires a multi analytical approach for comprehensive knowledge and the interpretation of the results. This holistic approach, while enhancing the quality of the results, raises […]
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