Unibo Team Leader: Prof. Rocco Mazzeo, Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca per le Scienze Ambientali -CIRSA – Microchemistry and Microscopy Art Diagnostic Laboratory (M2ADL)
Aim: CHARISMA is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative that brings together 21 leading Europeaninstitutions developing research on artwork materials and their deterioration finalised to the conservation of cultural heritage. The consortium has the objective to optimise the use of infrastructures through a coordinated program of transnational access, joint research and networking activities. Transnational access offers applicants opportunities to exploit the services of three different and complementary groups of facilities, embedded in a multidisciplinary environment involving material science and artwork conservation/restoration. They are:
- a group of six archives containing a huge amount of analytical data, hosted by the most prestigious European museums and institutions developing safeguard and conservation of cultural heritage;
- a set of advanced portable instrumentation for in-situ non-invasive measurements in the same site where the artworks are located or exhibited;
- two platforms, one in France and one in Hungary, where large scale facilities are coupled to a set of medium scale instrumentations, open to users for the most advanced studies on artwork materials and their alterations.
Research is devoted:
- to improve access to databases exploiting digitalisation of data and their harmonisation;
- to design and set-up innovative instrumentations, for in-situ 2D and 3D examinations of artworks, and new cleaning techniques;
- to develop new methodologies for the study of organic materials and their distribution in micro-samples or directly at the surface of the object.
Through networking, the way infrastructures are working is improved, harmonising methodologies and best practices in analysis and conservation, pursuing the establishment of a multidisciplinary synergic working method, based on shared use of knowledge and resources.
Coordinator
UNIVERSITA’ DI PERUGIA (Italy)
Other participants
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA
- Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca per le Scienze Ambientali -CIRSA – Microchemistry and Microscopy Art Diagnostic Laboratory (M2ADL)
- Resp. scientifico: Prof. Rocco Mazzeo
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE,CNRSLC2RMF/LOA (France)
FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS-FORTH, Heraklion, (Greece)
THE NATIONAL GALLERY-NGL London, (UK)
SOCIETE CIVILE SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL-SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, (France)
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE-CNR- ICVBC/ IFAC/INOA, (Italy)
UNIWERSYTET MIKOLAJA KOPERNIKAW-NCU, Toruniu, (Poland)
RHEINISCH-WESTPHÄLISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE-RWTH, Aachen, (Deutschland)
MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA ATOMMAGKUTATO INTEZTE, ATOMKI-HAS, Debrecen, (Hungary)
CERCLE DES PARTENAIRES DU PATRIMOINE - LABORATOIRE DE RECHERCHE DES MONUMENTS HISTORIQUES, CPP-LRMH, Champs-sur-Marne, (France)
THE BRITISH MUSEUM (BM), London, (UK)
DOERNER INSTITUTE, BAYERISCHE STAATSGEMÄLDESAMMLUNGEN-DI-BS, Muenchen, (Deutschland)
IDRYMA ORMYLIA - ART DIAGNOSIS CENTRE-Of – ADC, Ormylia, (Greece)
OPIFICIO DELLE PIETRE DURE, Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Firenze, (Italy)
MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO-PRADO, Madrid, (Spain)
INSTITUUT COLLECTIE NEDERLAND-ICN, Amsterdam, (The Netherlands)
KONINKLIJK INSTITUUT VOOR HET KUNSTPATRIMONIUM-KIK-IRPA Bruxelles, (Belgium)
AGENZIA PER LA PROMOZIONE DELLA RICERCA EUROPEA, APRE, Roma (Italy)
LABORATORIO NACIONAL DE ENGENHARIA CIVIL-LNEC Lisbon, (Portugal)
SZILARDTESTFIZIKAI ES OPTIKAI KUTATOINTEZETE - Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia-BNC-RISP, Budapest, (Hungary)
Start date 01/10/2009
End date 30/09/2013
Duration 48 months
Subprogramme Area Cultural heritage Advanced Research Infrastructures: Synergy for a Multidisciplinary Approach to Conservation/Restoration
Contract type Combination of Collaborative Project and Coordination and Support Action for Integrating Activities