- Alicem institute
Alicem Institute is a corporate institute specialized in the appraisal and restoration of Old Masters Painting (XIVth to XIXth century).
Research methodology
The style, the subject, the preservation state, mounts, pigments and technic are many criteria. For works which don't have any history, scientific methods are necessary so as to know more about pictorial coat, surface roughness, potential touched-up area less than 80 years thanks to ultraviolet, apocryphal signature, failings or flaking of... and for example chemical analysis of pigments, Castaing's electronic microprobe (X-rays so as to look at the « skeleton » of the work), fiber-optic microprobe, radiocarbon dating and dendrochronology
Publications
* "Le bestiaire infâme de Jan Brueghel de Velours (The infamy bestiary in the painting of Jan Brueghel the Velvet)", Hortense Eberlé, Alicem Institute
* Catalogue Raisonné Critique de l'oeuvre de Sebastian Vrancx (1573-1647), Dimitri Joannidès, Alicem Institute, currently writingLocation & Offices
* Brussel (Belgium)
* Luxemburg (Luxemburg) - Headquarter
* Paris (France)
* St Petersburg (Russia)
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