We do run a lot of initiatives, Stay on top of things! Looking at old and new prints with an USB microscope is revealing and with some experience can lead to their identification. Printmaking history is fascinating as well as a complex subject. I like to share in this post some basic hints on their
I took this image from my Lab, a couple of weeks ago. I live close to Mount Etna, the tallest active volcano in Europe, about 3,300 m high. Etna is in an almost constant state of activity and we are kind of used to those smoke plumes. April 2013. Etna eruption seen from my Lab.
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
Thanks for following! Greetings from the Cultural Heritage Science Open Source lab. 360° view of the Lab It has been 6 months since the first post on Cultural Heritage Science Open Source blog. I’m glad to see that my posts are serving a growing art and conservation community interested in low-budget and innovative solution for
This post introduces MultiSpec,the Multispectral Image Data Analysis software that I use. It’s free and pretty easy to use. On their website you’ll find tutorials and examples to learn and master it, so, I’ll just give here a very simple example of its application for examination of art. Just to let you see how neat