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Type: Laboratory
Description

The Faculty of Geography and History is equipped with six Teaching and Research Laboratories that have been recognised for their excellence within the HÁBITAT 5U Campus of Excellence and renewed in their scientific equipment. The Department of Art History has the Santiago Sebastián Art History Laboratory, dedicated to the analysis, conservation and restoration of art objects, to which the Faculty has added a Laboratory of Analysis and Preventive Conservation. It analyses the dating and authentication of works, the precise knowledge of the materials used by the artist, the detection of repainting, the socio-historical interpretation of the time in which they were executed, the stylistic analysis or to highlight the possible underlying design and the conservation and/or restoration of art objects.