SHARING Project (Scientific Humanistic ARt INvestiGation) aims at building a prototype of an innovative scientific museum catalogue: the product of a sinergystic mix of humanistic/scientific research and information collected on late 15th to early 16th canvas and panel paintings, by employing cutting-edge scientific examinations led by an integrated analytical protocol.
The topic of the research lies in the intersection of historical and technological approach to cultural heritage studies, addressing painting technique through a multi-perspective yet coordinated strategy.
The analytical characterization of the painting materials and the imaging of the painting technique and procedures allow one to focus the research. They also address the art historical and conservation issues within the interdisciplinary field that recent advancements of applied technologies and conservation science have opened up.
The main goal and deliverable of the project will be a pilot scientific museum catalogue, built around a specific corpus of the collections of Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples - Flemish and Neapolitan late 15th schools - which forms a restricted yet significant group of paintings. The Università della Campania already co-operates with Museo di Capodimonte to study and promote its collections.
Being at the crossroads of diverse and distinct approaches and disciplines, the materiality of the artwork will be investigated through the combination of cutting-edge hyperspectral imaging techniques, over a wide spectrum spanning the range between x-rays and midIR. Such an approach will supplyunprecedented real-time information of spatial details (macro-micro scale), composition (elemental and molecular) and structure. Traditional non invasive portable equipment is not able to achieve such detailed information pertaining to such a number of different materials.
The huge quantity of collected data and images will be elaborated, stored in a specific data/image base and will provide means of cultural dissemination at different levels of knowledge in our modern society.
SHARING will design a digital Museum entry, equipped with a dynamic and multi-purpose viewer, linking the multidisciplinary information collected on each painting. On the one hand, this will be delivered to scholars, conservators and scientists. On the other hand it will frame the Museum activity in creating new tools to properly disseminate culture from centres of erudition such as museums. The data collected and the digital open-access catalogue will enhance the museum website. At the same time the museum experience will be enriched, for both scholars and visitors, who will benefit from multi-media tools, illustrating through multilayer interactive images the technique of the paintings and the different distinct steps in the execution of the works of art.

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