Projects
St Luke’s Secrets: Pigment Analysis of Illuminated Manuscripts
In collaboration with the Hamilton Kerr Institute and the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, the Fitzwilliam Museum is launching a new project on the pigment analysis of illuminated manuscripts. The project has appointed its first Research Associate, Dr Paola Ricciardi, through the generosity of a private donor. The immediate objective is the non-invasive identification of materials used in Western European manuscripts from the 6th to the 16th century.
Cambridge Illuminations Research Project
The project, which began in 2003 with a three-year grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and continued with a one-year grant from the Modern Humanities Research Association (2007), is now supported entirely by a private sponsor.