The archaeological expedition led by Vl. V. Sedov discovered thousands of fragments the original painting around 1130 in St George Cathedral Yuriev Monastery Novgorod during 2013–2020. Recent finds remarkable frescoes Monastery, as well Church Annunciation on Hillfort from beginning 12th century, significantly expand traditional understanding early art Veliky Novgorod. These murals allow us to ...

The article is devoted to the analysis of one most paradoxical phenomena artistic culture late Soviet era - monumental and decorative art, which, despite its programmatic socio-political involvement, became part “Soviet modernism”, combining social utopia with a variety formal, plastic, stylistic, aesthetic directions, which reflected search for new national individual author’s language imagery...

The fresco cycle painted at the behest of Pope Sixtus IV in the late 1470s in the main ward of the hospital of Santo Spirito in rome comprises an extended pictorial biography of Sixtus, prefaced by scenes representing the legendary foundation of the hospital by his predecessor Innocent III. The legend, which tells how Innocent established Santo Spirito as a foundling hospital in response to the...

We present a method for recovery of damaged parts of old paintings (frescoes), caused by degradation of the pigments contained in the paint layer. The original visible colour information in the damaged parts can be faithfully recovered from measurements of absorption spectra in the invisible region (IR and UV) and from the full spectral data of the well preserved parts of the image. We use the ...

In the field of documentation and preservation of cultural heritage, there is keen interest in 3D metric viewing and rendering of architecture for both formal appearance and color. On the other hand, operative steps of restoration interventions still require full-scale, 2D metric surface representations. The transition from 3D to 2D representation, with the related geometric transformations, ha...