Summer 2019 Speaker Series: Marcello Picollo, National Research Council of Italy (IFAC-CNR) | Friday, June 21st | "Imaging Spectroscopy: 25 years of experience at IFAC-CNR"
The Center's Science for Art Summer 2019 Speaker Series welcomes Marcello Picollo on Friday, June 21st for his talk, "Imaging Spectroscopy: 25 years of experience at IFAC-CNR." Join us for a lecture and discussion on studies and research projects at IFAC-CNR that customize imaging spectroscopic instrumentation and methodologies to the specific needs of art conservation and applications in the museum context.
Dr. Picollo is a researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara” of the National Research Council of Italy (IFAC-CNR), Florence.
T
alk Details:
Friday, June 21st, 11:30-12:30pm
Technological Institute – Tech A230
(Civil & Env. Engineering Conference Room)
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL, 60208
Full Abstract:
Imaging Spectroscopy: 25 years of experience at IFAC-CNR
Marcello Picollo, National Research Council of Italy (IFAC-CNR)
Imaging Spectroscopic techniques, also known as hyperspectral imaging, whose popularity is steadily increasing, have been utilized in museums and conservation laboratories for documentation and analytical purposes as well as in support of restoration treatments on different types of artworks and archaeological objects. For more than a decade, several studies and research projects have been devoted to customize imaging spectroscopic instrumentation and methodologies to the specific needs of art conservation and applications in the museum context.A brief overview of the Imaging Spectroscopic devices developed at IFAC-CNR laboratories as well as a novel concept of hyperspectral camera will be presented. Potentialities, weaknesses, and future trends of the technique will also be discussed.
About Dr. Piccolo:
Marcello Picollo has a PhD in Photonics from the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) and a graduate degree in geology from the University of Florence. He is a researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara” of the National Research Council of Italy (IFAC-CNR), Florence. He has been working on spectroscopic investigations of works of art since 1991; his main research focus is on artists’ material characterization using non-invasive spectroscopic and imaging techniques. Since 2009, he has been the coordinator of the IFAC Applied Spectroscopy Group on the research line “Integrated spectroscopic instrumentations and methodologies for the diagnosis and monitoring of Cultural Heritage objects and environment.”
He was one of the two Italian members of the Management Committee for the COST Action TD1201 - Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage (COSCH, 2012-2016).
Dr. Picollo is the president of the Gruppo del colore – Associazione Italiana Colore (GdC-AIC) since April 2018, Asia and Oceania regional area chairperson for Infrared and Raman Users' Group (IRUG), and Fellow of International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC).
He coordinated the Project “Memoria Fotografica, The recovery of color negative and positive films that were damaged by Leghorn flood: Dainelli Photographic archive case study” in cooperation with the Regione Toscana. He also coordinated the IFAC Research Group for the Project “Terahertz Advanced Research TEchniques for non-invasive analysis in art conservation” (THz-ARTE) in the framework of the cooperation in Science and Technology between the Italian and Japanese governments in collaboration with ENEA-Frascati and the Japanese (NICT-Tokyo & NNRICP-Nara) teams, as well as for the project “Conservazione preventiva dell'arte contemporanea” (COPAC, Contemporary Art Preventive Conservation, 2011-2013) in the framework of P.A.R. FAS 2007-2013 REGIONE TOSCANA in collaboration with Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali (INSTM), Laboratorio di Scienze Chimiche per la Salvaguardia dei Beni Culturali (SCIBEC) del Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale dell'Università di Pisa, and Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS).
He also participated in the EU Projects POPART “Strategy for the Preservation Of Plastics ARTefacts in museums collections” (2008-2012, FP7-ENV-2007-1 - Grant. N 212218) and LIDO “A LIght DOsimeter for monitoring cultural heritage: development, testing and transfer to market” (2001-2004, FP5-EVK4-CT-2000-00016).
Marcello Picollo provides analytical support to conservators and curators at museums, galleries, and restoration laboratories; oversees and performs testing and analysis on polychrome surfaces by using non-invasive techniques; supervises lab staff (Ph.D. students, junior fellows, interns, and technicians); monitors environmental conditions of art displays in galleries and churches; develops proposals for international research collaborations; functions as coordinator of international research projects. Since October 2008, he has been an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Florence (Italy) on Image Elaboration for an undergraduate course in “Technology for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage,” and from January 2005 to April 2010, he was an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Ferrara (Italy) in the Spectroscopic Techniques graduate course in “Conservation and Diagnostic of contemporary and modern artworks”.
He is the author and co-author of more than 100 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals, international books, and international conference proceedings.