Seminar on deconstructing and reconstructing paintings

NU/ACCESS Seminar Series in Conservation Science

"Deconstructing and reconstructing paintings: advances in the
    scientific imaging and analysis of painted surfaces"
The Millennium Park Room
The Art Institute of Chicago
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

"Deconstructing and reconstructing paintings: advances in the
scientific imaging and analysis of painted surfaces", under the
auspices of the Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago
CEnter for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS), will take
place on Wednesday, February 12, 2014, in the Millennium Park Room,
at the Art Institute of Chicago.

This event is part of a continuing seminar series on conservation
science, sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the
Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago CEnter for
Scientific Studies in the Arts.  The goal of these seminars is
twofold: to inform art historians, conservators, curators and
conservation scientists on the techniques and expertise available in
science and engineering for advancing the practices of art history
and conservation, and to educate scientists and engineers on the
opportunities and unsolved problems in conservation science.

Participation is free, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation and the Materials Research Science and
Engineering Center of Northwestern University, but you need to
register in order to attend this seminar.

Please RSVP to nu-access<-a t->northwestern< . >edu Friday, January 24, 2014.
For more information, you may call 847-491-3606.

Program

    9:00 am             Registration

    9:15am              Welcome

Frank Zuccari
The Art Institute of Chicago

Francesca Casadio
Art Institute of Chicago and NU-ACCESS, Chair

    9:30 am             Kelly Keegan and Kim Muir
                        Art Institute of Chicago

                        In-depth investigation of Renoir and Monet
                        paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago

    10:00 am            Joris Dik
                        Delft University of Technology

                        Innovations in Macro-XRF Mapping of
                        Paintings Enable a New Kind of Art History

    10:30 am            John Delaney
                        National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

                        Visible and IR Reflectance Imaging
                        Spectroscopy for In-situ Mapping of Artworks

    11:00 am            Luca Pezzati
                        CNR INOA, Florence, Italy

                        Advances in multiband IR  imaging of
                        masterpieces of Italian Renaissance art

    11:30 am            Robert G. Erdmann
                        University of Arizona and Rijksmuseum

                        Advances in Image Processing and
                        Visualization of the paintings of Hieronymus
                        Bosch

    12:00 pm            Lunch

Katherine T. Faber
Northwestern University and NU-ACCESS Chair

    2:00 pm             TBA
                        3D imaging to uncover distinguishing
                        features of works of art on paper and
                        photography: a possible clue to their
                        dating?

    2:30 pm             Federica Pozzi
                        Art Institute of Chicago

                        Paint Daubs and Nanoparticles: SERS and
                        Digital Reconstruction of Impressionist
                        Paintings

    3:00 pm             Jens Stenger
                        Harvard Art Museums and Yale

                        Non-Invasive Color Restoration of Mark
                        Rothko's Harvard Murals Using Light

    3:30 pm             Q&A

    3:45 pm             Concluding remarks
                        Marc Walton, NU-ACCESS

Francesca Casadio and Katherine Faber
co-Directors, NU-ACCESS

Francesca Casadio, PhD
Andrew W. Mellon Senior Conservation Scientist
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Ave
60603 Chicago, IL
312-857-7647
Co-Director, Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago
CEnter for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS)


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