Summary
IEICE Information and Communication Technology Forum
2013
Session Number:ENG
Session:
Number:ENG-1
Virtual Restoration and Analysis of Digitized Paintings
Aleksandra Pizurica,
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Publication Date:2013-07-20
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
This talk addresses virtual restoration and painter style characterization in digitized paintings, using as a case study the famous polyptich Adoration of the Mystic Lamb painted by the Flemish masters, brothers Van Eyck in the 15 th century. In the actual, physical restoration the cracks are never removed. Hence, only virtual restoration could present us the painting as it used to appear centuries ago, before marks of aging arose. This can not only greatly enhance the visual experience (which is important from the aesthetical and psychological points of view) but in some cases it can also facilitate deciphering the content (like text fragments), which can be of great importance for art historical and iconographical analysis. Equally challenging is development of new tools for painter style authentication. We present some of the metrics for objective characterization of the painter style, especially focusing on painted pearls, which are so beautiful and abundant in the works of Van Eyck. We are challenged to extract a kind of painter’s signature or an individual characteristic of the painter style by means of mathematical analyisis. In this context, the method that will be described here aspires to create a tool for art historical attribution. The potentials of this method to distinguish between the painter styles are discussed as well as some side applications, like bringing the painted object closer to a style of another painter.