Overview
ISAAC’s projects takes the research team to museums, galleries and heritage sites across the World. We have visited numerous national and international organisations, applying our multimodal analysis for the examination of various artworks of different type and style.
- From European projects at London’s V&A museum, the Louvre in Paris and Fondation Beyeler near Basal, Switzerland to North American work at New York’s Brooklyn Museum and Getty Conservation Institution (GCI) based in Los Angeles.
- In China, our research has taken us to Shaan Xi History Musuem, in Xi'an, the Dunhuang Research Academy in Gansu and the National Museum of China, Beijing.
Instrument Development
Remote laser spectroscopy at standoff distances for heritage applications
Remote spectral imaging at the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Dunhuang
Paintings
Culture and Trade through the Prism of Technical Art History - a Study of Chinese Export Painting
Conservation varnishes at the National Gallery: studying their optical and material properties
Ultra-high resolution Optical Coherence Tomography (UHOCT) for the conservation of the Leonardo da Vinci painting Saint John the Baptist at the Louvre
Vitreous Objects
Rock Art Monuments
Non-invasive methods for in situ assessing and monitoring the vulnerability of rock art monuments