Joint Working Group Meetings
- Conservation Now - Joint Interim Meeting, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013
- Heritage Wood: Research & Conservation in the 21st Century
- DEMHIST / ICOM-CC Joint Interim Meeting 2012: The Artifact, Its Context and Their Narrative
- Multidisciplinary Conservation: A Holistic View For Historic Interiors
- Thangka Forum: Proceedings
- The Non Invasive Analysis of Painted Surfaces: Scientific Impact and Conservation Practice
- UPHOLSTERY+ Joint Interim Meeting, Krakow 2007
Joint Working Group Meeting - The Non-Invasive Analysis of Painted Surfaces: Scientific Impact and Conservation Practice
The ICOM-CC Painting and Scientific Research Working Groups, in partnership with the Lunder Conservation Center
and the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation, present
The Non-Invasive Analysis of Painted Surfaces:
Scientific Impact and Conservation Practice
Lunder Conservation Center
McEvoy Auditorium
Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery
8th and G Streets, NW
Washington, D.C. 20003
This two-day event, hosted by the Lunder Conservation Center in Washington D.C. on February 20 and 21, 2014, will focus on recent advances in technology and instrumentation for the analysis of painted surfaces.
While non-destructive and micro-destructive analytical methods are often essential for the study and understanding of paintings, recent developments in portable and non-invasive instrumentation have led to growing interest in the applicability of techniques to the study of paintings. Further, as new instrumentation becomes commercially available and more affordable, conservators and scientists are able to use non-invasive techniques for monitoring and analysis in new ways.
A particular focus of the conference will be the interpretation of analytical results from portable instrumentation including colorimetry, imaging and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. The format of the conference will include papers and panel discussions on the following:
- Technical study of painted surfaces using non-invasive techniques
- Spectroscopic methods for in-situ analysis of organic and inorganic materials in paintings (to include novel spectroscopic methods)
- Imaging of paintings - digital x-ray, Infrared and multispectral imaging
- Non-invasive microscopy of paintings
- Monitoring and assessment of conservation treatments using non-invasive methods
Regular registration: $150.00
Student registration: $50.00
To register online, please click here.
For a preliminary schedule, please click here.
A full schedule of presentations will be available in November.
Proceedings of conference papers will be published by SI Scholarly Press following peer review.