This paper presents results of new approaches to imaging, specifically utilizing techniques developed by NASA for spacecraft missions to other solar system bodies. Results from a month long field project in Jerusalem in June-July 1994 demonstrate the usefblness of the new techniques on inscribed soft media and ostraca. The imaging approach is effective and usehl on frescoes, mosaics, ink inscri...

Evidence is presented that the first images of maize in Europe are to be found in the festoons painted by Giovanni Martini da Udine about 1515–1517 that surround the frescoes designed by Raphael Sanzio in the fabulous residence, now known as the Villa Farnesina, of the Sienese banker Agostino Chigi. Additional representations of maize by the same artist painted in 1517–1519 are included in fest...

INTRODUCTION Between the years 1337 and 1339, the artist Ambrogio Lorenzetti adorned the walls of the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena, Italy, with frescoes depicting allegories of good government and bad government and their effects on city and country (see Fig. 1). His imagery is lucid and effective. The “good government” fresco depicts a wise monarch surrounded by personifications of virtues such a...

The archaeological site of Akrotiri on the island of Thera (modern-day Santorini) has proven a treasure trove of information about Aegean civilization and culture. Among its most valued artifacts are wall paintings (frescoes), which have been preserved in the volcanic ash since the sixteenth century BCE. The frescoes, however, are typically recovered in fragments of a few centimeters to a few t...