Updates in Paintings Conservation Documentation: new developments in

databases, documentation and the technical imaging of paintings

A joint meeting of the ICOM-CC Paintings Working Group and Documentation Working Group
Netherlands Institute for Art History / Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), The
Hague, Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, The Hague
Saturday, 21 September 2013
Registration for this event is free. Space is limited. RSVP required. Contact Ruven Pillay, C2RMF, Paris
and Coordinator of the ICOM-CC Documentation Working Group:
Email: Ruven.pillay@culture.gouv.fr
For directions:
http://english.rkd.nl/Contact/Accessibility/Public_transportation/default_Public_transportation

9:30
9:45

Door open
Welcome remarks

Session:
Session Chair:

Databases and Documentation

Ruven Pillay, C2RMF, Paris and Coordinator of the ICOM-CC Documentation
Working Group

10:00 10:20

Wietske Donkersloot, Coordinator of Technical Documentation

Department/Project Manager Rembrandt Database, RKD and Assistant
coordinator of the ICOM-CC Documentation Working Group, and Michiel
Franken, Curator of Technical Documentation and Rembrandt & Rembrandt
School, RKD
"Technical Documentation at the RKD and on the Internet"

10:20 10:40

Annelies van Loon, Conservation Scientist, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis,

The Hague
Reexamination and documentation of existing paint cross-sections for The
Rembrandt Database

10:40 11:00

Robert Erdmann, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and

Engineering and Program in Applied Mathematics, The University of Arizona,
Tucson
"Bosch Research and Conservation project (BRCP)"

11:00 11:15

Discussion

11:15 11:45

Coffee

Session:
Session Chair:

Update on Selected Mellon funded initiatives

Petria Noble, Head of Paintings Conservation, Royal Picture Gallery
Mauritshuis, The Hague

11:45 12:15

Merv Richard, Chief of Conservation, National Gallery of Art, Washington

Update on The Conservation Space Project

12:15 12:45

Dominic Oldman, Deputy Head of Information Systems, British Museum

And Principle Investigator of ResearchSpace
Data Harmonisation for Collaborative Research The ResearchSpace Project

1:00 2:00

Lunch break

Session:
Session chair:

Imaging techniques and image analysis

Tiarna Doherty, Chief of Conservation, Lunder Conservation Center,
Smithsonian American Art Musuem, Washington, D.C.

2:20 2:40

Ruven Pillay,
Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Muses de France (C2RMF) Muse
du Louvre, Paris

2:40 3:00

John Delaney, Senior Imaging Scientist, Scientific Research Department,

National Gallery of Art, Washington
Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectroscopy of Paintings, Drawings and
Illuminated Manuscripts

3:10 3:30

Tim Zaman, PhD candidate, Delft University of Technology, Delft

"Photothermal Tomography - Revealing hidden colors using mid-infrared
imaging"

3:30 3:50

Eric Postma, University of Tilburg

Full Professor in Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg center for Cognition and
Communication, Tilburg University
"Computers as tools for conservators"

4:00 4:30

Discussion