The Gilt-bronze seated Buddha at Sinamsa temple in Dangin has an uneven the shape gilt, poor gloss and cracks were damaged. Such damage to gold-gilding layer may degrade corrosion resistance of statue, thereby promoting metal compound. statue was a restoration 1980s, it highly likely that modern materials such as cashew used adhesive for gold-gilding. In study, conservation management plan prop...

Laser scanning methodology allows to reconstruct the metric characteristics of objects at different LOD (Level Of Detail) providing spatially dense points clouds. In particular, the terrestrial application carried out in the last years have demonstrated the potentialities of the methodology useful in many different sectors. This tecnique has been used also for the “Cavallo ligneo” of the “Palaz...

Publication of a Late Period naophorous statue Tjanefer, dedicated to goddess called “the Gold”, most likely Nebet-Hetepet. Comparison similar objects suggest it derives from Heliopolis during Dynasty 30. The brief hieroglyphic inscriptions present original variations religious formulae and maxims attested on other monuments.

The coinage of Vijayanagar and the later successor state of Mysore is relatively unique among Indian coin series in that a number of coin types have close sculptural parallels. In this brief paper, I will point out a few of these, using two specific cases, reliefs of Hanumān and the gold varāhas of Hari Hara I and Bukka I, and the statue of Bālakṛṣṇa from the Kṛṣṇa Temple in Hampi and the Bālak...

How did it start? It began in 1976 with a meeting over a glass of beer between Bob Swanson, then a bright young venture capitalist, and Herb Boyer (UCSF), who with Stan Cohen (Stanford) had just performed some of the key experiments of recombinant DNA technology. The meeting is now immortalized in a brass statue in the new Founders’ Research Center. Genentech was founded later that year, and cl...