purchased by a French private collector who placed the statue in a Parisian garden, where it endured two more decades of outdoor exposure to urban pollutants and acid rain. In December 2007, the piece was shipped to Sotheby’s in New York to be sold at an auction of Greek and Roman antiquities.2 Looking beyond the superficial, curators and conservators from the Yale University Art Gallery discer...

The ‘Motya Charioteer’ marble statue, a masterpiece of ancient Greek sculpting, was discovered in 1979 on the island Motya, Sicily. A general assessment statue's conditions 2008 revealed that has lost its luster and started to show some microcracks. In 2019 2020, microbiological surveys were conducted assess marble's biodeterioration through identification bacteria capable metabolizing calcium ...

Three experiments examine how the peripheral visual field (PVF) mediates the development of spatial representations. In Experiment 1 participants learned and were tested on statue locations in a virtual environment while their field-of-view (FOV) was restricted to 40 degrees , 20 degrees , 10 degrees , or 0 degrees (diam). As FOV decreased, overall placement errors, estimated distances, and ang...

Twenty-eight States, including California, have a codes imposing strict liability for dog-related injuries. In essence, these laws makes an owner liable, without having to prove fault or negligence, if the actions of their dog causes injury to a person (see M. Randolph, Dog Law, 3rd ed. 1998, Nolo Press). The specific language used in the codes varies from state to state. In California, for exa...

The restoration of wooden artworks often requires high resolution 3D close-range elevation models. This work shows in that context some experience developed for the survey of Donatello’s wooden statue “La Maddalena”. A conventional close-range photogrammetric survey was carried out for the post elaboration of 3D high resolution cloud points data obtained by a fringe interferometric system devic...