Saturday, November 10, 2012 hours 14:15
Encaustic: History techniques and researches

Presentation of the e-book
Saturday November – 10 - 2012 from 2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m., Talking Corner


The publication covers the state of the art of the knowledge on this debated topic and it is also the result of a conference in which they were considered antique techniques and analyses of encaustic paintings on some portraits coming from Fayum. The analyses were performed with the most modern techniques also on some replies specifically designed to test the limits and the potential in determining the encaustic also with a view to its correct definition. Attended at this campaign of research the Universities of Pisa, Turin, Rome, Parma, and Viterbo and the USOB of Naples together with the Swedish Academy, the OPD and the INO of Florence.

Attending: Sergio Omarini, former Director of the Unità Salvaguardia Patrimonio Artistico of the ENEA, lecturer at the USOB of Naples and at the Tuscia University of Viterbo and Professor at the INO CNR of Florence.

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