Skip to main content
Go to the home page of the European Commission (opens in new window)
English English
CORDIS - EU research results
CORDIS

REVealing hIddEn Wall paintings

Project description

Making invisible wall paintings visible

There is a new way to detect covered wall paintings, hidden structures and unseen damages in cultural heritage. The EU-funded REVIEW project will adopt non-destructive multispectral imaging techniques, combining active and passive thermography in the spectral ranges of long- and mid-wave infrared with ultraviolet-visible-near-infrared imaging, 3D laser scanning and photogrammetry. Specifically, the project will develop guidelines for a reproducible workflow with high-end multispectral imaging techniques. The surveys will be conducted at several heritage sites in Valencia, including the Cathedral of Valencia, Basílica de la Virgen and/or Church of San Esteban, followed by the transfer of the approach to the UNESCO World Heritage Site Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple in Sri Lanka.

Objective

REVIEW – REVealing hIddEn Wall paintings – is a MSCA Individual Standard European Fellowship with the scope to adopt non-destructive multispectral imaging techniques for the detection of covered wall paintings, hidden structures and unseen damages in Cultural Heritage. Therefore, the researcher, Max Rahrig, will combine active and passive thermography in the spectral ranges of long- and mid-wave infrared (LWIR and MWIR) with ultraviolet-visible-near-infrared (UV-VIS-NIR) imaging, 3D laser scanning and photogrammetry. The Photogrammetry and Laser Scanning Research Group (GIFLE) of the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (UPV) in Spain will host REVIEW under supervision of Professor José Luis Lerma.
Several examinations and tests on case studies will help to develop innovative guidelines for a reproducible and adoptable workflow with high-end multispectral imaging techniques rarely unified in current documentation and assessment practices. The surveys are located at several heritage sites in Valencia, including the Cathedral of Valencia, Basílica de la Virgen and/or Church of San Esteban, followed by the transfer of the approach to the UNESCO World Heritage Site Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple in Sri Lanka. In Dambulla the investigations serve to reveal large areas of concealed wall paintings and to detect areas threatened by climate damages (high water intake through the rock). The results will be a basis for a follow-up project to protect and conserve the World Heritage Site.
The innovative research approach of REVIEW will be ready to be transferred to a large number of historical objects to help conservation users with easy-to-use, comprehensive and outstanding technological solutions for their examination, conservation and dissemination of hidden wall paintings.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.

You need to log in or register to use this function

Coordinator

UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA
Net EU contribution
€ 160 932,48
Address
CAMINO DE VERA SN EDIFICIO 3A
46022 Valencia
Spain

See on map

Region
Este Comunitat Valenciana Valencia/València
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Links
Total cost
€ 160 932,48
My booklet 0 0