discover the work of art system penco innovative method on the diagnosis of works of art through the use of a software and a database

摘要

The project represents an instrument that, by a filing of historical-icono graphic information and a software, provides a innovative support to the study, to the filing and to the diagnostics of manufacts in the field of art. The software researchs, within a database containing the files of all of those attributes that, in the long run, have characterized the iconography of a subject. These attributes, then, are often typical of a certain historical period and of a localized geographical area; therefore, they are underlined because they are a precious value for the manufact's diagnostics. For example, a saint can be represented with some attributes up to a certain age and then, maybe as a consequence of what decided during a Council, from that moment onwards the representation method changes: this element is very significant for the datation. Or a Saint, maybe even patron of a town, has been pictured by the utmost artists of that area, nevertheless he has remained unknown elsewhere: this element is very important for the localization of the commitment's area. Once the pictured character has been identified (in the case it deals with a saint, otherwise with any other represented subject), this system allows us to rediscover all of those historical hence “certain” elements allowing us to circumscribe the manufact to the historical and geographical period it belongs to. The system runs by the same principle even on other subjects (for example prophane iconography) and the database includes all of that historical information enabling the research about several typologies of manufacts (pictures, codici miniati, statues, bronzes, arazzi, incisions, objects, etc). Within the database there is also a “dynamic” file of the works. Hereafter we quote the most interesting ones from a historical-artistic point of view and their position. We also mention the lost ones. Images can be filed We foresee that the system compares the result of this first research with the files of two other databases: the one of the old “books of bills” of the painters (where we can find the list of commitments, the wages, etc.) and the one of the chemical characteristics of the pigments and of the executive techniques of the different artists (certain pigments are to be found just in certain areas and some caves expired since a long time ago; moreover, even the materials used by the artists are different according to the ages and the geographical areas: the most precious pigments were only used by the Master, while the pupils had to be satisfied with a less rich and expensive palette).