Alicem institute

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Alicem Institute

Art Institute (Luxemburg) specialized in Old Masters Painting (XIVth to XIXth century). Scientific researches and appraisal of works on paper, pannel and canvas by European artists. Works for Institutions as Public Museums and Foundations.

1 Research methodology
2 Key personnel
3 Offices
4 Publications
5 Specialist of (selection)

[edit] 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.

[edit] Key personnel

Chairman : Dimitri Joannidès
Supervisor : Jean-Claude Fureau

Appraiser for Old Masters Paintings : Professeur Béjard

Occasional partners : Павел Шаварда

[edit] Offices

Belgium : 13 rue de Belgrade 1060 Brussel

Luxemburg : 33 allée Scheffer 2520 Luxemburg

Russie : 3 Прачечный Переулок, Cанкт-Петербург (St-Petersburg)

[edit] 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 writing