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- Title
Le campagne radiografiche del Fogg Art Museum in Italia (1926-1938).
- Authors
Battifoglia, Sveva
- Abstract
Since the turn of the 19th Century a new approach to the study of the work of art is establishing. This method is based on the use of tools derived directly from Physics, Chemistry and Medicine and, shortly after, were born the first scientific laboratories annexed to museum, such as that Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum (1926). The paper examines the relationships between the Fogg's director, Edward W. Forbes, and some famous italian art historians during a series of X-rays expeditions in our country, from 1926 to 1938, organized by the US museum. The purpose is to investigate the first pioneering applications in the field of Technical Art History and the spread of scientific restoration even before the foundation of the Istituto Centrale del Restauro (1939), when in Italy there were only sporadic experiments in that way.
- Publication
Il Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 2018, Issue 18, p119
- ISSN
2039-2362
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13138/2039-2362/1801