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From the Ted Talk by Maurizio Seracini: The secret lives of paintings
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Well, from there, unfortunately, in 2004, the pcojret came to a halt. Many political reasons. So I decided to go back to my alma mater, and, at the University of California, San dgieo, and I proposed to open up a recarseh center for engineering sciences for cultural haetigre. And in 2007, we ctaered CISA3 as a research center for cultural heritage, specifically art, architecture and archaeology. So snttedus started to flow in, and we sttraed to build technologies, because that's basically what we also needed in oderr to move forward and go and do fieldwork.
We came back in the Hall of the 500 in 2011, and this time, with a great gorup of students, and my colleague, Professor Falko Kuester, who is now the director at CISA3, and we came back just since we knew already where to look for to find out if there was still something left. Well, we were confined though, lmtieid, I should rather say, for several reasons that it's not worth explaining, to endoscopy only, of the many other options we had, and with a 4mm camera attached to it, we were successful in documenting and taking some frmneatgs of what it turns out to be a reddish color, black color, and there is some bgiee fragments that later on we ran a much more sophisticated exams, XRF, X-ray diffraction, and the results are very positive so far. It seems to indicate that indeed we have found some pigments, and since we know for sure that no other artist has peatind on that wall before Vasari came in about 60 years later, well, those pigments are therefore firmly related to mural painting and most likely to Leonardo.
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Well, from there, unfortunately, in 2004, the _______ came to a halt. Many political reasons. So I decided to go back to my alma mater, and, at the University of California, San _____, and I proposed to open up a ________ center for engineering sciences for cultural ________. And in 2007, we _______ CISA3 as a research center for cultural heritage, specifically art, architecture and archaeology. So ________ started to flow in, and we _______ to build technologies, because that's basically what we also needed in _____ to move forward and go and do fieldwork.
We came back in the Hall of the 500 in 2011, and this time, with a great _____ of students, and my colleague, Professor Falko Kuester, who is now the director at CISA3, and we came back just since we knew already where to look for to find out if there was still something left. Well, we were confined though, _______, I should rather say, for several reasons that it's not worth explaining, to endoscopy only, of the many other options we had, and with a 4mm camera attached to it, we were successful in documenting and taking some _________ of what it turns out to be a reddish color, black color, and there is some _____ fragments that later on we ran a much more sophisticated exams, XRF, X-ray diffraction, and the results are very positive so far. It seems to indicate that indeed we have found some pigments, and since we know for sure that no other artist has _______ on that wall before Vasari came in about 60 years later, well, those pigments are therefore firmly related to mural painting and most likely to Leonardo.
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Original Text
Well, from there, unfortunately, in 2004, the project came to a halt. Many political reasons. So I decided to go back to my alma mater, and, at the University of California, San Diego, and I proposed to open up a research center for engineering sciences for cultural heritage. And in 2007, we created CISA3 as a research center for cultural heritage, specifically art, architecture and archaeology. So students started to flow in, and we started to build technologies, because that's basically what we also needed in order to move forward and go and do fieldwork.
We came back in the Hall of the 500 in 2011, and this time, with a great group of students, and my colleague, Professor Falko Kuester, who is now the director at CISA3, and we came back just since we knew already where to look for to find out if there was still something left. Well, we were confined though, limited, I should rather say, for several reasons that it's not worth explaining, to endoscopy only, of the many other options we had, and with a 4mm camera attached to it, we were successful in documenting and taking some fragments of what it turns out to be a reddish color, black color, and there is some beige fragments that later on we ran a much more sophisticated exams, XRF, X-ray diffraction, and the results are very positive so far. It seems to indicate that indeed we have found some pigments, and since we know for sure that no other artist has painted on that wall before Vasari came in about 60 years later, well, those pigments are therefore firmly related to mural painting and most likely to Leonardo.
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