Symposium "Examination and Attribution of Works of Fine and Applied Arts"

On June 27, 2000 Director of the State Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky addressed the participants of the symposium at the opening ceremony held in the Hermitage Theatre. The meetings of scientists joined up specialists from the Moscow State University, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after Alexander Pushkin, the State Tretiakov Gallery, the State Museum of History, the All-Russian Museum of Applied and Folk Arts (Moscow), the State Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg) and scientific research centres and museums from towns of Russia, CIS and Baltic republics. The first day of the symposium was devoted to the methodological problems of attribution of works of arts. Participants also discussed physical and chemical methods of examination, the role of X-ray tests in the complex of pre-restoration examination of works of art. Problems of scientific-technical examination also became the subject for discussion.