ALMA 2012 seminar - first information
13.02.2012, 14:56:05 Updated | Comments 0 | Reads 50x | 0%
The even year 2012 will bring the 4th ALMA interdisciplinary seminar intended for Czech experts and students of subjects dealing with artworks and cultural heritage protection. Its crucial topic is Knowledge and experience in the fine art – from understanding materials to technological applications.
P.F. 2012
7.12.2011, 15:51:05 Updated | Comments 0 | Reads 70x | 0%
Dear friends of the ALMA laboratory, the year is coming to an end. Therefore we would like to wish you merry Christmas and a happy new year. May the upcoming year be successful in all spheres of your lives and may your troubles "dissolve" at least as much as the verdigris crystals in the tempera in the introductory picture to this news.
Missed D. Hradil´s lecture at the Week of Science and Technology and now feel upset? Watch it online
7.12.2011, 15:51:05 Updated | Comments 0 | Reads 40x | 0%
Within the Week of Science and Technology 2011 our colleague David Hradil gave an interesting lecture revealing unexpected secrets of several paintings as an example of the ALMA laboratory´s activities. We thank all the “live” listeners and bring good news for the others: If you missed the lecture, you can now watch it online (in Czech)!
Silvie Švarcová´s dissertation defence and her new article
1.11.2011, 11:42:29 Updated | Comments 0 | Reads 56x | 0%
We are pleased to invite you to our colleague Silvie Švarcová´s dissertation defence. The dissertation is called Preparation, Identification and Degradation of Copper-based Inorganic Painting Pigments.The defence takes place on November 10, 2011 at 10 a.m. in the rector´s meeting room, Institute of chemical technology, building A, Technická 5, Prague 6.Those impatient to wait can try a tasty starter –...
Meet ALMA during the Week of Science and Technology
14.10.2011, 11:47:33 Updated | Comments 0 | Reads 81x | 0%
In early November Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic organises a traditional Week of Science and Technology which offers a good opportunity to get to know ALMA´s activities closer. You can visit ALMA´s "experimental kitchen" during open house tours at the Institute of Inorganic...
New albums in the photogallery
14.10.2011, 11:47:07 Updated | Comments 0 | Reads 163x | 0%
In autumn people often boast about their holiday photos but we bring photos from our work…The photogallery has been updated with new and also older but yet unpublished pictures from several conferences and business trips. To underline we do work diligently the photogallery has been called ALMA caught in the act. Click here and check it!
ALMA searched the OPD Archives in Florence within an international project
23.09.2011, 09:31:45 Updated | Comments 0 | Reads 83x | 0%
The aim of the CHARISMA project funded by the EU was to verify the hypothesis on Italian earth grounds introduced in the 16th century and dominating as early as in the 17th century. We presumed that their composition was regionally specified. New measurements and reinterpretations of the archive data have confirmed this assumption. Ground layers enable to distinguish paintings made in the...
Petr Bezdička at the 22nd IUCr Congress in Madrid
21.09.2011, 12:06:40 Updated | Comments 0 | Reads 96x | 0%
Petr Bezdička has left a significant trace at the 22ndInternational Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Congress in Madrid held last summer. He was appointed a new member of the IUCr Commission on Crystallography in Art and Cultural Heritage, chaired two microsymposiums and received the PANanalytical IUCr 2011 Best poster Award. You can check photos from the event in the
ALMA in Parlamentní magazín
21.09.2011, 12:06:40 Updated | Comments 0 | Reads 137x | 0%
A regular section "Research and Development" of Parlamentní magazín´s third issue is devoted to our laboratory. The comlete issue can be downloaded here (available unfortunately only in Czech). The article by D. Hradil describing ALMA´s...
Acta Artis Academica in the ISI Proceedings
16.01.2012, 11:32:37 Updated | Comments 0 | Reads 214x | 0%
The ALMA seminar proceedings, which was released under the new name Acta Artis Academica last year, has been added to the ISI Proceedings Database. Abstracts of all papers published in the proceedings can now be found on the Web of Science site.
Archaeometry: Focused on Green Earths
3.06.2011, 12:27:00 Updated | Comments 0 | Reads 135x | 0%
A detailed article by D. Hradil et. al. "Mineralogy of Bohemian Green Earth Pigment and its Microanalytical Evidence in Historical Paintings" was published in the third issue of the current volume of Archaeometry.
Read ABC
7.01.2011, 15:01:23 Updated | Comments 0 | Reads 251x | 0%
An interesting article "Clay pigment structure characterisation as a guide for provenance determination—a comparison between laboratory powder micro-XRD and synchrotron radiation XRD" by Silvie Švarcová et. al. has been published in the first 2011 issue of the Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry journal.
ALMA on TV
16.06.2011, 12:44:32 Updated | Comments 0 | Reads 200x | 0%
An interesting report in Czech TV programme "Port" including some ALMA´s experts. The report was broadcast on December 29, 2010. Those of you who missed it but long to see it can click here. (The show is in Czech).
Photos from the ALMA 2010 seminar
16.01.2012, 11:15:29 Updated | Comments 0 | Reads 437x | 0%
The photos from the ALMA 3rd interdisciplinary seminar have been uploaded to the Photogallery. The seminar took place on November 24-25, 2010 in Břevnov Monastery in Prague.
