Rapid development of information technologies, related equipment and software makes it possible to achieve significant results in cultural heritage preservation. In recent times not only abroad but also in Russia more and more efforts and funds are allocated for development of cultural preservation innovative projects, which are aimed at establishing of information sources, virtual museums and ...

Ancient Chinese fresco painting has a long history and is one of the important art forms traditional painting. As genre in China, realistic always adhered to spirit times. This paper examines relationship between ancient modern painting, summarising artistic characteristics from three perspectives: composition, materials, technique style, exploring inheritance development on

The church of Saint Mamas is a small, domed structure that lies close to Menetes village in Karpathos. It preserves most its painted decoration, consisting the scene Ascension Christ on dome and saintly figures rest surfaces. A dedicatory inscription, read here for first time, dates frescoes 1312/3 places them broader context precisely dated monuments. Certain features iconographic program, suc...

A special feature of Orthodox religious buildings is the presence in worship hall works architecture, artistic murals, icons, frescoes, iconostases historical and cultural value. The specificity buildings: churches, temples cathedrals also year-round services gatherings a large number parishioners staff, reaching several thousand people. It known that dozen candlesticks with burning candles are...

This paper focuses on the re-assembly of an archaeological artifact, given images its fragments. problem can be considered as a special challenging case puzzle solving. The restricted natural image from square pieces has been investigated extensively and was shown to difficult in own right. Likewise, matching “clean” 2D polygons/splines based solely their geometric properties studied. But what ...