Our Scientific Papers

PDF files of technical papers we have published containing some of our scientific evidence can be downloaded by clicking on the following links:

Optical Insights into Renaissance Art
Optics & Photonics News 11, 52 (2000).

Optical Insights into Renaissance Art Optics at the Dawn of the Renaissance
Invited paper for the Technical Digest of the Optical Society of America, 87th Annual Meeting (OSA, 2003).

The Art of the Science of Renaissance Painting
Invited paper for the Proceedings of the ‘Symposium on Effective Presentation & Interpretation in Museums (National Gallery of Ireland, 2003).

Optics and the Old Masters
One-page summary for an invited talk at the ‘Symposium on Renaissance Art and Optics’, Optical Society of America (OSA, 2004).

Optical Instruments and Imaging: The Use of Optics by 15th Century Master Painters
Invited paper for the Proceedings of Photonics Asia 2004 (SPIE, 2004) [This paper describes relevant aspects of the technology of appropriate refractive and reflective optics, complementing the optical evidence in our other papers].

Quantitative Analysis of Qualitative Images
Invited paper for the Proceedings of the IS&T/SPIE 17th Annual ‘Symposium on Electronic Imaging’ (SPIE, 2005).

Novel Expert-Based Approach to Image Analysis
Invited paper for the Proceedings of the ‘9th International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications’ (IEEE, 2007).

Computer Vision and Art
IEEE MultiMedia (IEEE, 2007) [This was written at the invitation of one of the editors, to address errors in three papers by someone named David Stork that they had published. Because of a strict page limitation, there wasn’t room to discuss all of the errors in Stork’s three papers.].

Ibn al-Haytham and the Origins of Computerized Image Analysis
Invited paper for the Proceedings of the 2007 ‘International Conference on Computer Engineering & Systems’ (IEEE, 2007).

The Use of Optics by Renaissance Artists
This article on ‘The Use of Optics by Renaissance Artists’, solicited by the publisher’s Scientific Board, describes how we were able to demonstrate that artists began using optical projections early in the Renaissance (McGraw-Hill, 2008).

Ibn al-Haytham’s Contributions to Optics, Art, and Visual Literacy
Invited paper for the 2008 ‘Painted Optics Symposium: Re-Examining the Hockney-Falco Thesis 7 Years On’ (Fondazione Giorgio Ronchi, 2009).

High Resolution Digital Camera for Infrared Reflectography
Copyright (2009) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. This article appeared in Review of Scientific Instruments 80 071301 (2009) and may be found at http://link.aip.org/link/?RSI/80/071301.
Invited paper describing a high resolution infrared camera I developed and applied to the study of several works of art, including Lorenzo Lotto’s ‘Family Portrait.’ As Fig. 7 shows, the infrared reflectogram confirms the central octagonal pattern of this painting is based on a projection that was refocused twice due to exceeding the depth-of-field of the lens or concave mirror. This, and other details of this painting revealed in the infrared (to be published elsewhere), confirms our previous analysis of how optical projections were used in the creation of significant features within this work.

High-Resolution Infrared Imaging
Copyright (2010) SPIE. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the SPIE. This article appeared in Proceedings of SPIE Conference 7782 (2010).
Invited paper on “High-Resolution Infrared Imaging”of works of art for the 2010 SPIE Annual Meeting.

 

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