Art‐omics: multi‐omics meet archaeology and art conservation

Raman Spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau...

Where art and biology meet

From the still life with a bowl of fruit to scenes of wildlife in the woods, from Michelangelo’s David to Damien Hirst’s Verity, biology often provides the shapes, forms, colours and concepts that most inspire visual artists to create their own representation of life. Apart from the unique case of Leonardo da Vinci, the scientific and the artistic eye cast on living things have rarely resided i...

The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology

Raman spectroscopy in art and archaeology.

The first chemical analyses of artworks and archaeological artefacts were accomplished historically and reported by Rene-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur [1–4] in France in a series of publications between 1716 and 1739 and by Sir Humphry Davy [5] in the UK in 1815, respectively: the former appeared in the Memoires Academie de Sciences, Paris, on pottery, glass and porcelains and the latter on wall...

Algorithms Meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic

Two years before WADS began, my father Martin Demaine and my six-year-old self designed and made puzzles as the Erik and Dad Puzzle Company, which distributed to toy stores across Canada. So began our journey into the interactions between algorithms and the arts. More and more, we find that our mathematical research and artistic projects converge, with the artistic side inspiring the mathematic...