-flash news- Ottoman tiles: conference at Musée Cernuschi, Paris

On the 20^th of November 2012 at 18.30, at Cernuschi Museum in Paris (Asiatic Arts Museum founded by an Italian  patriot at the end of the 19^th century), doctor Gulsu Simsek will hold a conference about ceramic tiles produced during the Ottoman Empire between the 15^th and the 17^th centuries. The results of the archaeometric investigations conducted on the tiles will be shown.

To learn more about Cernuschi Museum:

* www.cernuschi.paris.fr

To learn more “Archaeometrically speaking”:

* G Simsek, Ph Colomban, V Milande, Tentative differentiation between Iznik tiles and copies with Raman spectroscopy using both laboratory and portable instruments, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 41 (2010), 5, 529-536.

* G Simsek, AE Geckinli, An assessment study of tiles from Topkapı Palace Museum with energy dispersive X-ray and Raman spectrometers, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 43 (2012), 7, 917-927.