2021
3 December 2021: New access to beamtime for Cultural Heritage experiment - AXIS participation (video)
29 November 2021: Ehab Aleman obtained his degree of Doctor in Conservation-Restoration
18 November 2021: A paper by Letizia Monico et al. on the multimodal analysis of a "fake gold" pigment in "Maestà ", a 13th Century painting by Cimabue, was accepted in JAAS.
15 November 2021: Een wereld achter glas: Een kostbaar glasraam uit de Notre-Dame van Parijs - AXIS participation (video)
1 November 2021: The "2021 BRAND Book " of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility mentions our "Science Advances" study on Munch's "The Scream" (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay3514)
30 October 2021: Dr. Alba Alvarez Martin is part of the "Power Listers of the Future" of The Analytical Scientist
19 October 2021: K. Janssens explains how MA-XRF works in the church of Our-Lady-of-Across-the-Dyle, Malines (Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-over-de-Dijle, Mechelen) Belgium
13 October 2021: Book presentation in Ghent Cathedral on the Second phase of the restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece
Older highlights
July 2020 - Geert Van der Snickt's publication on the Lamb: Dual mode standoff imaging spectroscopy documents the painting process of the Lamb of God in the Ghent Altarpiece by J. and H. Van Eyck.
July 2020 - The University of Antwerp and the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam are investigating the iconic painting ‘’The Milkmaid’ of J. Vermeer. The aim of the study is to determine whether or not Vermeer used pigments of the same outstanding quality in this painting as in the Girl with the Pearl Earring, another very well known work of the 17th century artist.
July 2020 - Explaining MA-XRF scanning on 'the Portrait of Margaretha Van Eyck', painted by Jan Van Eyck. Watch the video here.
April 2020 - Girl with a Pearl Earring originally stood for green curtain
April 2020 - "The Scream" will be better preserved from now on
January 2020 - AXES participates in Operation Nightwatch
April 2019 - Frederik Vanmeert obtained the degree of Doctor of Science.
March 2019 - AXES member Geert Van der Snickt was appointed Tenure track professor at the Department of Conservation Studies of The UA
August 2016 - Prof Koen Janssens receives the EXSA award on outstanding achievement in X-ray Spectrometry.
March 2015 - Frederik Vanmeert's article on Van Gogh's minium degradation on the cover of Angewandte Chemie
February 2015 - Inauguration Chair on Advanced imaging techniques for the arts
September 2014 - Frederik Vanmeert receives 'Young Scientist' Award' for his oral contribution during the SR2A 2014 conference that took place at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
