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.
Download our just published study on the application of technical photography for the examination and documentation of wall paintings. Technical Photography for mural paintings: the newly discovered frescoes in Aci Sant’Antonio (Sicily, Italy). CHSOS used technical photography for the examination and documentation of wall paintings in Sicily. Visible, ultraviolet and infrared photography coupled with panoramic and
CHSOS was at EuroMed 2014, Cyprus (Nov 3-8 ), a conference on digital documentation of heritage for conservation and protection. Samantha Stout, PhD student at CISA3 – University of California San Diego, presented a poster and a short talk on the field project carried out with CHSOS in the Catacombs of San Giovanni, Syracuse, Sicily. These are
Just published on the free online magazine, Archeomatica, 2, 2014. This paper presents the discovery of these frescoes and their examination performed with technical photography, XRF, and FORS (Fiber Optics Reflectance Spectroscopy). This paper steams from a collaboration that CHSOS has had with University of California San Diego (XRF spectroscopy) and GHT Photonics (FORS spectroscopy)
Samantha Stout is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of California, San Diego. She is undertaking part of her PhD research in Sicily, and I’m helping out so she may have access to various Sicilian Cultural Heritage sites. I like to volunteer a bit of my time to have scholars come to Sicily and do scientific
We do run a lot of initiatives, Stay on top of things! I noticed that I’m focusing this blog too much on technical and geeky stuff on how the scientific tools work rather than telling why we actually use the different imaging methods. So, this post explains why we use Infrared False Color with some