In San Gimignano with a team of acrobats to conduct complex structural diagnostics for the Italian National Trust Also known as the “Manhattan of the Middle Ages,” San Gimignano is located along the Via Francigena, in Tuscany, Italy. During its peak, the...
Scientific analyses confirm the discovery of a terracotta portrait of Filippo Brunelleschi, a work by his son. When thinking of Brunelleschi, how not to think of the Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore, an exceptional work that remains unparalleled to date. The Florentines,...
All what you wanted to know about the recent attribution of Geneva’s Last Judgment The Spanish art historian, dr. Amel Olivares, has attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti a linen canvas measuring 96.5ร81.3 cm, painted in oil and depicting the Last Judgment in a...
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....
In recent months, we have collaborated with the Fitzwilliam Museum (UK), particularly with Dr. Flavia Fiorillo, an expert researcher in non-invasive investigations of paintings, books, and manuscripts, for a study on a highly significant early-period painting, now in...
When Nazis and fascists looted homes and churches, the artworks were often repainted to disguise them. Through diagnostic analysis, the history can be uncovered. You might wonder how our world, the world of art scientists, could be involved with war and with freedom?...
