DIVIDI Foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental organization with ANBI status, dedicated to making technical art imaging and investigations accessible to a broader audience. To achieve this, DIVIDI fosters education by organizing workshops, offering internships, and supporting fellowships focused on art technical investigation.
About us
Stichting Dividi, a non-governmental organization, is dedicated to promoting material-technical research on paintings and polychrome artworks and making the results of such research and technical imaging accessible to a culturally and scientifically interested audience. Founded in 2018, Stichting Dividi provides open access for heritage professionals, such as art historians, museum conservators, and restorers, to research findings and imagery derived from its professional conservation work and analyses. The foundation consolidates technological studies and data on paintings and aims to share exemplary knowledge.
To further develop the field of material-technical art history, Stichting Dividi promotes postdoctoral scholarships and internships for young specialists focused on the technical analysis of artworks. Additionally, the foundation offers interdisciplinary learning opportunities through workshops, conferences, and symposia. Through the provision of educational opportunities, the dissemination of research findings, and the promotion of collaboration between art conservators, art historians, and technical art historians, the foundation seeks to foster innovation and deepen understanding within the field.
DIVIDI intends to collect, cross-reference, and share collective art technological data while also supporting scholarship in the technical study of paintings and polychrome artworks. To encourage a greater understanding of such images in the field of art history, the foundation will foster collaboration between conservators and art historians by offering workshops, internships, post-graduate fellowships and symposia focused on in-depth analysis of artworks.
As of December 2021, DIVIDI Foundation was given ANBI Status.
“Contemporary connoisseurship differs from other, more purely theoretical approaches in its insistence that all hypotheses must constantly be tested against the reality of the physical work of art.”Hal Opperman
Mission
The DIVIDI Foundation is committed to fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of art's material and technical aspects through a science based approach. By making research findings, technical imaging, and educational resources accessible to a broader audience, including professionals, students, and cultural enthusiasts, DIVIDI looks to enhance the knowledge and importance of Technical Art Analysis in all related fields.
DIVIDI’s mission is to generate contemporary connoisseurship by providing open access to standardised image studies and peer reviewed research on the material and techniques of artworks investigated in private conservation studios, such as Studio Redivivus.
Thereby, we intend to provide conservators, art historians and other specialists with comparative, cross-referenced data from otherwise unpublished examinations of both museum and privately owned masterpieces.