I’ve been working in the organizing committee for the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for Art. Workshop in Volterra, Italy which just finished. The beauty of the city and the proactive attitude of its citizens made everything go well. As a test on a real work of art the NMR team investigated the Annunciation fresco in
I started working on cultural heritage science with a bench-top Horiba Jobin Yvon Raman Spectrometer in 1999. I did keep working on other Raman systems from time to time. A lot has been written on this technique and its applications for Art and Archaeology.So, this post just provides – as usual – my personal insights.
There are some scientists in Europe and US studying the applications for art conservation and historical architecture of mobile Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) systems. Among them the Pratt Institute where last year I taught “Scientific Art Examination”. NMR is yet expensive equipment and the its spectra require advanced knowledge for their interpretation, but non-specialists
I have worked on Terahertz for Art Examination between 2008-2011, and Terahertz was the main topic of my fellowship in Conservation Science at the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Terahertz finds application for Art Examination and Conservation. I was looking through my material on this topic and I found a nice educational video I made two