Commission on Crystallography in Art and Cultural Heritage

XXIV IUCr Congress Hyderabad

The Commission played a very active role at the 2017 IUCr Congress in Hyderabad, with participation in several Microsymposia in both the Main and Special Activities parts of the programme. The importance and general interest of the subject were recognised in the Plenary Lecture, Crystallography in Art and Cultural Heritage, given by Giacomo Chiari, and a Keynote Lecture, Indian geometric patterns, compared to Persian and Moroccan styles, by Jean Marc Castera.

 Thanks to the initiative of the CrysAC Commission the programme of the 24th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography in Hyderabad also contained four microsymposia:

  • MS-047: Crystalline materials characterization with combined techniques, chaired by Koen Janssen & Alejandro Ayala, 24.08.2017
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  • MS-071: Crystallographic patterns in art and cultural heritage, chaired by Louise De Las Penas and Rima Ajlouni, 25.08.2017
  • MS-104: Synchrotron measurement in conservation and cultural heritage, session prepared by Eric Dooryhée, chaired by Alison Edwards and Gilberto Artioli, 27.08.2017
  • MS-114: Crystallography and cultural heritage: From microsampling to noninvasive techniques, chaired by Manfred Schreiner and Serge Cohen
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The CrysAC Commission in co-operation with Professor Bernardo Cesare (UNIPD) was also involved in the preparation of an exhibition Beauty hidden in Rocks, which accompanied the Congress.

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The IUCr also prepared some beautiful postcards, which were distributed during the Congress, representing in small format the exhibited macrophotographs.

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Old and new members and consultants of the Commission met during the Congress to discuss future activities.

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2nd CrysAC Workshop 2017

On May 31, the CrysAC Commission organized the second CrysAC workshop entitled Applied crystallography in the study of pigment degradation, which was held in Brno, Czech Republic. The programme of the workshop is available at: https://www.alma-lab.cz/eng/conference-programme--invited-speakers

Alma 2017

The Commission was also a co-organizer of the 6th Interdisciplinary ALMA Conference in Brno, Czech Republic, 1-3 May. More at:https://www.alma-lab.cz/eng/alma-conference-2017

 

Emil Makovicky gave a 45 minute lecture, Introduction to symmetry in art (with nice examples), during the 6th interdisciplinary ALMA Conference and 2nd CrysAC Workshop in Brno, Czech Republic, 31 May - 3 June 2017.


Prepared by: Alicja Rafalska-Lasocha & Gilberto Artioli
Photo credits: 24th IUCr Congress; Radomir Kuzel; Alicja Rafalska-Lasocha
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