We can bring our scientific equipment where your artwork is. Just be sure that the painting is in a shaded room so we can perform our technical photography examination. We have the most lightweight traveling equipment that fits in just a luggage. It will take less than 6 hours for us to complete the examination.
CHSOS provides art examination and documentation worldwide and on-site with lightweight equipment. CHSOS is based close to Catania airport serving plenty of Italian domestic destination as well as direct flight to a number of European main cities such as Barcelona, Berlin, Bucharest, Budapest, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, London, Malta, Munich, Nuremberg, Paris, Prague, Tel Aviv, Zurich. CHSOS
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682) could be considered the most important Spanish painter in the 17th century. He depicted women and children of his time and major religious works mostly between 1670 to 1682. He was extremely popular and he influenced artists such as Thomas Gainsborough which was his admirer. Ground layers and imprimitura An extensive
Just published a brief report on the discovery of a XVIII century Annunciation hidden under a same subject XIX century painting. DOWNLOAD During the conservation of the later painting the numerous paint losses indicated to the skilled conservators that another painting was well preserved behind it and it was worth to separate them (strappo). An high
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,
This new paper discusses RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) for documenting historical graffiti in Catacombs. Historical graffiti provide unique information on the uses of the catacombs over the centuries. Some of the graffiti of the catacombs of San Giovanni are contemporary with the epoch of the paintings that bear them (late antiquity), while others have been incised by