Medieval manuscripts animated gifs7/23/2023 Illuminated manuscripts constitute the largest and best preserved repository of European paintings before 1500. Due to the very thin and delicate layers of their pigments, illuminations are not normally restored by conservators in the way that panel and wall paintings often are. Although they survive in far larger numbers and better condition than any other form of medieval painting, some have suffered from the natural degradation of pigments over the centuries as well as from iconoclasm and censorship which have altered their original images. One aspect of our work is the application of digital image restoration methods to illuminated manuscripts. Digital restoration of Illuminated Manuscripts by ‘inpainting’ Notably, digital restoration problems have attracted the attention of the mathematical imaging community which has started applying state-of-the-art image restoration methods to enhance certain aspects in art pieces and help answering the questions above. Mathematical methods for the analysis and the processing of artworks have become very popular over the last decade thanks to the emergence of digitization in the arts. “What did the art piece look like when it was created?” “What can we see and not see in it now?” “What materials were used to make it and have they changed over time?” How to answer them in an informed while objective manner? Surprisingly maybe, this is where mathematics can play a role. “What did the art piece look like when it was created?” “What can we see and not see in it now?” “What materials were used to make it and have they changed over time?” are only few of the questions we may have asked ourselves. While admiring a work of art – possibly damaged by the passage of time, the elements, human intervention or wear-and-tear – we have all played at least once the part of an art restorer and interpreter. The blog post has been cross-posted from SpringerOpen blog.
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