News tagged with paintings
Safe journey for works of art
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Valuable paintings travel long distances when they are shipped from one place to another. To minimize damage, they are packed in special picture cases. In future, these will be equipped with sensors to detect ...
Britain's National Gallery offers its art on the iPhone
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Fans of fine art will be able to access some of their favourite paintings anywhere they choose through a new iPhone application launched Tuesday by the National Gallery in London.
Research to determine whether art is in the eye of the beholder
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the University of Manchester are to transform a leading art gallery into a laboratory to determine whether or not people experience art in the same way.
New technology for dating ancient rock paintings
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 11, 2009 |
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A new dating method finally is allowing archaeologists to incorporate rock paintings — some of the most mysterious and personalized remnants of ancient cultures — into the tapestry of evidence used to study life in prehistoric ...
Mould problem "stable" at Lascaux cave
Feb 26, 2009 |
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The problem of black fungus threatening world-famous prehistoric paintings at the Lascaux Cave in southwestern France is "stable," a scientist said on Thursday.
