Russia holds the first largest collection of canvas by great Spanish masters outside Spain, including paintings El Greco, Murillo, Ribera, Zurbaran, Goya, and others. In November 2023 Pushkin State Museum Fine Arts presents an exhibition from its own collections, as well works art Hermitage regional museums. this interview, Svetlana Zagorskaya, curator painting at Museum, talks about collection...

Artists have been looking at the world for thousands of years, and thus paintings and drawings can be considered to form a  -year-old corpus of experimental psychology of perception. Through observation and trial-and-error they have exploited the principles of how our brains interpret the input from the retina, giving priority to only certain regularities of the visual pattern. Thus, a stu...

A number of mural paintings and building materials from monuments located in central and south Europe are characterized by the presence of an intriguing rosy discolouration phenomenon. Although some similarities were observed among the bacterial and archaeal microbiota detected in these monuments, their origin and nature is still unknown. In order to get a complete overview of this biodeteriora...

We describe a method for representing and manipulating the color gamuts used by different artists to explore how the color schemes employed by artists might appear to the artist or to others. The method involves modeling the visual response to color and then adapting that response to simulate how color percepts change across different states of adaptation. Analyses of paintings and nature photo...

This paper reports an experiment designed to test whether prior consultation within a group affects subsequent individual decision making in tasks where demonstrability of correct solutions is low. In our experiment subjects considered two paintings created by two different artists and were asked to guess which artist made each painting. We observed answers given by individuals under two treatm...