There are some projects in the field
of the scientific study of cultural heritage and of their digital communication
that deserve a greater diffusion, in order to be taken as an example all over
the world.
Today we deal with the project
“Closer to van Eyck: Rediscovering the Ghent Altarpiece”, mainly supported by The Getty Foundation. Between 2010 and
2011 this project involved The Adoration of the Mistic Lamb that was subjected
to a series of technical and photographical documentations and also
investigations aimed to the assessment of the conservation status prior to a
restoration.
All the obtained results are public,
on-line and free and explorable through the amazing graphic interface of the
website. It is possible to download the files of the
reports of the investigations and, above all, the visitor is invited to a
visual exploration of the work thanks to a growing and growing zoom-in of the
details of macrophotographs (visible and IR), IR reflectography and X
radiography! There’s more: it is also possible to visualize the cleaning tests
and consult the documentation of the dendrocronology investigations and all the
other methods used.
I like imagining a big portal where
everyone could enjoy different kinds of works of art with all the investigations
carried out on them! Some years ago in the South of Italy, the Cultural
Association O.N.D.A. (Online Non Destructive Archaeology) had tried to make the
first attempt for the building of such a website, concerning in that case a
different field, the discovery of the underground invisible archaeological
heritage! Unfortunately it could not benefit from a proper support… But this is another story and shall be told
another time.
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