Visitors to the San Diego Museum of Art can catch a glimpse of the museum of the future. There, alongside the "Madonna and Child" by early Renaissance artist Carlo Crivelli, is an LCD display playing a video that takes museum-goers beneath the surface of the painting.

Much of the imagery came from multispectral imaging and other diagnostic tools deployed by scientists and engineers at the University of California, San Diego's Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3). The video went on display last week to update the public on the findings of a partnership between SDMA and CISA3. Crivelli's 1470 painting is one of half a dozen Renaissance works in the museum's permanent collection that are being studied in minute detail to create prototypes for what CISA3 Director Maurizio Seracini calls "digital clinical charts" for works of art.

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