Digital Cultural Heritage Preservation in Art Painting: A Surface Roughness Approach to the Brush Strokes
Anna Mironova,
Frederic Robache,
Raphael Deltombe,
Robin Guibert,
Ludovic Nys,
Maxence Bigerelle
Affiliations
Anna Mironova
CNRS UMR 8201–LAMIH–Laboratoire d’Automatique, de Mécanique et d’Informatique Industrielles et Humaines, University Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, F-59313 Valenciennes, France
Frederic Robache
CNRS UMR 8201–LAMIH–Laboratoire d’Automatique, de Mécanique et d’Informatique Industrielles et Humaines, University Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, F-59313 Valenciennes, France
Raphael Deltombe
CNRS UMR 8201–LAMIH–Laboratoire d’Automatique, de Mécanique et d’Informatique Industrielles et Humaines, University Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, F-59313 Valenciennes, France
Robin Guibert
CNRS UMR 8201–LAMIH–Laboratoire d’Automatique, de Mécanique et d’Informatique Industrielles et Humaines, University Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, F-59313 Valenciennes, France
Ludovic Nys
CRISS-Laboratoire “Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences de la Société”, Bâtiment des Tertiales, University Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Rue des Cent Têtes, F-59300 Valenciennes, France
Maxence Bigerelle
CNRS UMR 8201–LAMIH–Laboratoire d’Automatique, de Mécanique et d’Informatique Industrielles et Humaines, University Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, F-59313 Valenciennes, France
There is a growing interest in cultural heritage preservation. The notion of HyperHeritage highlights the creation of new means of communication for the perception and data processing in cultural heritage. This article presents the Digital Surface HyperHeritage approach, an academic project to identify the topography of art painting surfaces at the scale at which the elementary information of sensorial rendering is contained. High-resolution roughness and imaging measurement tools are then required. The high-resolution digital model of painted surfaces provides a solid foundation for artwork-related information and is a source of many potential opportunities in the fields of identification, conservation, and restoration. It can facilitate the determination of the operations used by the artist in the creative process and allow art historians to define, for instance, the meaning, provenance, or authorship of a masterpiece. The Digital Surface HyperHeritage approach also includes the development of a database for archiving and sharing the topographic signature of a painting.
