Training Course 5 : Colour Heritage and Conservation

Where : Palazzo Feltrinelli, Gargnano, Garda Lake, Università Degli Studi Di Milano, Italy
When  : 19 - 24 October 2009
Number of funded places : 60

Application deadline: 30 June 2009

This event would allow discussion and look at recent digital techniques used for the data acquisition, collection, restoration, presentation and preservation of coloured artefacts: paintings, sculpture, glass, textiles, works on paper, film, etc …

Some of the topics of interest are the following:

•  Digital capture, scanning, infrared and ultraviolet methods for non invasive capture of paintings and ancient artefacts;
•  Preservation of colour, inkjet, paintings, methods of lightfast testing, standards for accelerated and real-time testing. Ink and paper, materials chemistry;
•  Film digitalisation techniques and standards. Digital movie and picture restoration: colour, dust, stain, scratches;
•  Painting, inks and surfaces chromatic and spectral characterisation. Methodologies of restoration control and assessment

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