Project
Our Projects
Unit(s) of assessment: General Engineering
School: School of Science and Technology
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.
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
Manuscripts
ISAAC Mobile Lab Examination of the Faddan More Bog Bible
The Oppenheimer Siddur: uncovering the production process of a medieval illuminated Hebrew manuscript using scientific analysis
From Myth to Majesty: An Historical and Scientific Exploration of Fifteenth-Century British Royal Genealogies from the ‘Noah’ Tradition
Networks & Exhibitions
Seeing the Light - The Science of Colour in Art
Science and Heritage Programme Research Cluster on Understanding complex structures: the conservation, display and interpretation of lace and natural objects