Our Study of a Corpus of Forged Drawings at the IG-IIC Conference “Paper, Pen, and Ink: Diagnostics and Restoration of Writing Materials” Writing materials are not among the most studied, yet scientific analysis techniques can naturally be applied to them as well,...
Mark Your Calendar: November 14 in Rome for a Landmark Cultural Heritage Event On November 14, 2020, amid the global pandemic, UNESCO established the first International Day against the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property — marking exactly 50 years since the...
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...
