Rock art of human figures created over thousands of years in Australia's Arnhem Land has been put through a transformative machine learning study to analyse style changes over the years. The study has ...

From studying a newly discovered art piece to preventing mold and fungus in old paintings, chemistry and art history often meet and even inspired a new high school curriculum. A few weeks ago, ...

The identification of pigments on manuscripts, paintings, enamels, ceramics, icons, polychromes, and papyri is critical in finding solutions to problems of restoration, conservation, dating, and ...

How much top-flight art can the market absorb? That was the question hovering over the auction sector at the beginning of 2022, when Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips were preparing to offer more ...

The temperature changes hour to hour and day to day; exchange rates behave no differently. Wherever studies of the variability of similar one-dimensional time series are concerned, analyses based on ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Modern conservation treats biodiversity as a scientific concept, and while useful, the deeper truth is that for much of human history, it was not ...

30 June 2022, Lower Saxony, Brunswick: Painting conservator Hildegard Kaul looks at the X-ray image of a painting in the Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum. The museum plans to use a new X-ray system to ...

The human brain is built for art appreciation, suggests a meta-analysis that looked at studies mapping brain processes linked to the arts. Viewing paintings engages a number of different regions of ...