We got a new Studio
We are celebrating our new Studio! We moved to an 80 square meters (860 square foot) open space. It is an historical building (XVIII century) in downtown Viagrande, Italy, the Sapienza Palace.
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Colours 2015. Plenary Lecture
CHSOS just came back from Colours 2015 in Evora, Portugal. We gave a Plenary lecture “Innovative and Sustainable Technical Art Examination and Color Documentation”. Thanks to the organizers, and in particular to Milene Gil, Antonio Candeias and the HERCULES lab team, for this event in beautiful Evora. Scientific examination and documentation of art is expensive. The…
What people do with CHSOS Pigments Checker?
We have been shipping our Pigments Checker to conservators and researchers and we are glad now to receive photos showing how they use it for their studies. See all our tools we make for art examination on our TOOLS Page
Get out of the Lab, now!
News in Conservation (NiC) just published (issue 39, Dec 2013) a brief article that I wrote to share what I’m doing here in Sicily with other professionals: architects, archaeologists, and conservators. The article is introduced by the editor: “A year ago NiC published an article from scientist/blogger Antonino Cosentino (NiC, Issue 34, February 2013), discussing…
CHSOS in a nutshell
A brief intro to what we do at CHSOS: mission, art examination, research, training and tools. Download our brochure “CHSOS in a nutshell (June 2015)”
- CHSOS | Meet me | RTI | wall paintings
“Christian Epigraphy in Syracuse” workshop, May 15th 2015
CHSOS is invited speaker at “Christian Epigraphy in Syracuse” workshop, May 15th 2015. Since 2013 CHSOS has pursued diagnostics and documentation in Syracuse catacombs thanks to a research collaboration with Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra. Mural paintings and graffiti have been examined with innovative analytical and imaging technologies. CHSOS will present these studies. S. Stout,…
Our Talk at OKOA 2016. Art Diagnostics: Low-Cost Revolution
We just delivered our talk at OKOA 2016 (in Italian). The preservation of cultural heritage is a critical civic responsibility especially in Italy where the vast cultural heritage is widespread from the renowned mega-cities of Rome, Florence and Venice to almost every village. This rich distribution of cultural heritage property demands local civic engagement simply…
