The Graphics Museum of Pisa launches the Italian tour of Ultrasky: Exploring Egyptian Blue, from Art to Science, an intriguing exhibition that unveils the secrets of the world’s oldest artificial pigment: Egyptian Blue. More than just a color, this remarkable pigment...
In Arezzo an exhibition displays a monumental masterpiece and everything needed to travel back in time and enter the creative mind of one of the geniuses of the Renaissance “Our Giorgio,” wrote the admiring Cosimo I, referring affectionately to Giorgio Vasari. Some...
Ancient sculptures were not generally white, in bare marble, as we see them today, but they were painted, colored. It is probably due to natural deterioration processes that most of those that have survived and we can see today have not preserved their polychromy....
The biannual Future of Heritage Science and Technologies International Conference will be held in Florence on 29-30 April 2024, for its 4th edition. The final programme can be downloaded from the website: https://www.florenceheritech.com/. Art-Test in collaboration...
The progress of the science for cultural heritage is a fascinating journey. Every day it brings new discoveries, case studies, and data that expand our understanding of works of art, revealing their origins and enabling us to grasp when they were created. It also...
Fakes are increasingly relevant, because of their financial and cultural implications. Museums and cultural institutions are not exempt, on the contrary, the news is that there is tendency in their coming out, showing and discussing their fake collections, finally...
