Science and Technology: Approaches to Medieval and Renaissance Art, lecture by Nikolas Bakirtzis (The Cyprus Institute), Harvard University, November 13, 2023, 5:30–7:00 pm 

Scientific and technological advances have revolutionized the ways we study works of Medieval and Renaissance art and architecture. New technological tools, applications, and scientific methods reveal hidden secrets and enable discoveries that enrich our knowledge of the work of masters such as Titian and El Greco, and help us revise the chronologies of buildings like the UNESCO-listed Byzantine churches of the Troodos region in Cyprus. This talk draws from research work at the Cyprus Institute’s Andreas Pittas Art Characterization Laboratories of the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center (STARC), where an interdisciplinary team of experts works together to develop and apply a wide range of analytical and digital methods to address issues of materiality, technique, typology, style and provenance of works of art, monuments and sites.

Nikolas Bakirtzis is Associate Professor and Director of the Andreas Pittas Art Characterization Laboratories (APAC Labs) of the Cyprus Institute. 

Co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art & Architecture and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies.