The University of Antwerp (AXES group) and Musea Brugge (Municipal Museums of Bruges) will host the 2019 edition of Technart. The sixth edition of this biannual conference will take place in the historic city centre of Bruges (Belgium), which is listed as UNESCO world heritage. The main aim of this congress is to provide a scientific forum to present and promote the use of analytical techniques in the field of cultural heritage. The conference builds on the momentum of the previous TECHNART editions of Lisbon (2007), Athens (2009), Berlin (2011), Amsterdam (2013), Catania (2015) and Bilbao (2017).
The meeting offers an outstanding opportunity for exchanging knowledge and experience on leading edge developments in cultural heritage analysis. This includes studies on pigments, lithic materials, metals, glass, ceramics, resins and fibres and also chemometrics, forensic applications, art history, archaeology and conservation science.
Invited Speakers
Plenary lecturers (tentative lecture topics)
- Julie Arslanoglu, Metropolitan Museum, NYC, USA
Biochemistry and cultural heritage: identifying proteins and other binding media through immunochemistry - Gareth Davies,* Free University of Amsterdam, NL
Using isotope ratios in cultural heritage studies - Costanza Miliani, ISTM-CNR, Perugia, Italy
Understanding and preventing light-induced colour changes in modern pigments - Marika Spring, National Gallery of Art, London, UK
Investigating Van Eyck’s paintings in the National Gallery, London - Paolo Romano, IBAM-CNR, Catania, Italy
New developments regarding MA-XRF and related methods - Eleanor Schofield, Mary Rose Trust/Imperial College, London, UK
Understanding the conservation needs of the Mary Rose collection via synchrotron x-ray analysis - Marc Walton, NorthWestern University and NU-ACCESS, Chicago, Ill., USA
Tackling art historical, archaeological and conservation problems by means of a multidisciplinary approach
Keynote speakers (tentative lecture topics)
- Demetrios Anglos, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
Depth-resolved laser-based spectroscopy and spectrometry - Ilaria Degano, University of Pisa, Italy
Chromatography and mass spectrometry for the characterisation of dyes and pigments - Kathryn Dooley, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
Multimodal in situ spectroscopic imaging of artworks - Juan Manuel Madariaga, University of Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
In situ and ex situ multianalytical characterization of historical and archaeological materials and their degradation - Paola Ricciardi, FitzWilliam Museum/University of Cambridge, UK
Colour, colourants and context: the role of non-invasive scientific analyses - Lucia Toniolo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Conservation and monitoring of historical architecture: new materials and technologies
For more information: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/technart-2019/