Art, History and Science: a successful multi-disciplinary partnership to understand and interpret Cultural Heritage artifacts and monuments

Abstract

The study and conservation of Cultural Heritage materials is a research area with a strong multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary connotation that requires highly specialized skills spanning across the Humanities, Hard Science, Management, and Business research fields In fact, the need for a common integrated platform breaking the barrier between scholars with different educational/technical backgrounds (Science and Humanities) is widely felt. Moreover the need for a common language between restorers and conservation scientists in a fascinating field such as the Conservation of Cultural Heritage where the increasing development of more sophisticated chemical and physical analytical techniques is increasingly providing more and more long awaited answers to Art Historians and Restorers has gained particular relevance in the last decades