The Flora Sculpture at the Bode Museum Underwent a New Dating Method Leonardo da Vinci is today as much a media phenomenon as an artistic one, but public interest and curiosity about his figure have persisted for many decades, if not centuries. Since at least the 19th...
For over 25 years, exhibitions on Impressionists have been increasing in popularity among visitors. However, most of these exhibitions limit themselves to presenting the artworks in a didactic way, without exploring the techniques used to create them....
Tested on the Turin Shroud, it is based on a new principle compared to current techniques Dr. Liberato De Caro is a scientist at the Institute of Crystallography of the National Research Council (CNR), who has been developing and applying innovative techniques in...
The Secret of Vermeer’s “View of Delft”: A Masterpiece of Light and Time Once hailed by Marcel Proust as the most beautiful painting in the world, View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer remains one of the most celebrated artworks of the Dutch Golden Age. Vermeer, often...
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...
