How to authenticate a work of art? How to reveal forgeries? On 2 and 3 December 2021, as a result of an excellent initiative of the Italian Group of the International Institute for Conservation, the workshop โThe scientist and the forgery โ Scientific methodologies to...
Tomorrow is Caravaggioโs 450th birthday. There will not be celebrations, except for something almost improvised. Nothing to do with what had been organized for the 400 years since his death. In that occasion, Art-Test analysed several paintings of undisputed...
In silence in front of Her Our work is made up of many silences, those due to the concentration while we work and those due to the beauty of an artwork and the reflectographic image that we see while our scanner acquires the necessary data. This is the...
The Florence Heritech international conference, characterized by the particular formula that sees a scientific conference taking place together with a restoration and conservation fair, has opened the Call for Papers, for the edition to be held in May 2022. Here...
Life, death, his fortune, the inheritance he left, the history of the โArchivesโ, fakes, foundations, exhibitions. Already in January we discussed the innovative exposition that the Museum of Lille created for Amedeo Modigliani. An exhibition with an...