Marie RADEPONT
Ingénieur.e de recherche
Affiliation entity
CRCC
Interdisplinary research theme
Characterization and chemical imaging of cultural heritage material
Speciality
X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, inks, pictorial materials
Contact
Social networks
E-mail
marie.radepont [at] mnhn.fr
Phone
+33 1 40 79 53 09
Address(es)
36 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
75005 Paris
Responsibilities inside unit
Co-responsible for X-ray fluorescence spectrometers (mobile instrument and imaging spectrometer)
Open Science correspondent
Responsibilities outside unit
- Member of the review panel for the Support Tracé journal (since 2021)
- Member of the working group 3 of the CAI-RN network : tecniques and savoir-faire in archaeometry (since 2020)
- Member of the Scientific Commitee of the Fondation des Sciences du Patrimoine (since 2019)
- Member of the board of the gilding group of the SFIIC (2017-2019)
Presentation
PRESENTATION
As a materials chemist and physicist, Marie Radepont specialization is the study of historical artefacts in an artistic or archaeological context.
Marie Radepont entered the cultural heritage research field during a master 2 internship on mummies’ hairs at the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (C2RMF), followed by a PhD on the alterations of cinnabar - a red pigment also called vermilion - between the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and the University Pierre et Marie Curie (France). She performed post-doctorates on the study of the provenance and the degradation of silver leaves in gilt leather decorations at the Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation (CRC), and then worked on the authentication of paintings by hyperspectral imaging spectroscopy at the Laboratoire d’Archéologie Moléculaire et Structurale (LAMS).
Since January 1st 2019, Marie is a CNRS research engineer at the CRC and works especially on X-ray fluorescence spectrometers, including one imaging spectrometer. Her specialization in the use of state-of-the-art techniques dedicated to analytical chemistry, and in particular imaging techniques, allows her to identify and study materials used by craftsperson and artists from Antiquity to modern ages.
CV
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Projects
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Marie Radepont is involved in multiple research projects on the analysis of cultural heritage materials, especially from her implication in the “Tracings” group of the CRCC team.
She is particularly interested in material characterization, in the understanding of alteration processes of these materials, and in the development of analytical methodologies adapted to constraints due to the objects analyzed, especially in the chemical imaging field.
Objects studied during her main research projects include graphic documents, musical instruments, gilt leathers.
Publications
2025
- , August 2025 — Selective preservation of coleoid soft tissues in Lebanese Konservat-Lagerstätten. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology vol. 144, n° 1, p. 55
- , May 2025 — The Fragmented Library of the Sounding Box. Inscription: The Journal of Material Text – Theory, Practice, History , n° 5, p. 78-101
2024
- , March 2024 — Les apports de l’analyse des materiaux et de l’imagerie chimique à l’histoire des scriptoria et des bibliothèques : le ms. Avranches, BP, 50, temoin des relations entre le Mont Saint-Michel et Saint-Laumer de Blois avant 1022. Deuxième partie. Scriptorium : revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits vol. LXXIV (2022/1), , p. 19-59
- , 2024 — Intraspecific variation and new morphological characters revealed by multimodal imaging analysis on the Late Cretaceous coleoid, Dorateuthis syriaca. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica vol. 69, n° 4, p. 607-632
2023
- , June 2023 — Les apports de l’analyse des materiaux et de l’imagerie chimique à l’histoire des scriptoria et des bibliothèques : le ms. Avranches, BP, 50, temoin des relations entre le Mont Saint-Michel et Saint-Laumer de Blois avant 1022. Première partie. Scriptorium : revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits vol. LXXIV, 2021-2, p. 251-284
- , April 2023 — « Revealing inaccessible secrets using XRF imaging » in 1st M6 Jetstream User Meeting.. , ,
2022
- , September 2022 — « Analyses du Jikji par spectroscopie infrarouge à transformée de Fourier et imagerie de fluorescence X » in International Seminar on the Results of the Scientific Analyses of the Jikji.. , ,
- , April 2022 — Acquisition d’un imageur XRF pour l’analyse d’objets du patrimoine. , ,
- , March 2022 — La quantification par pXRF : retour sur un 1er atelier de travail du réseau CAI-RN. , ,
2021
- , March 2021 — « Towards digital reconstruction of lost signs borne by heritage artefacts using chemical imaging: the case of 16th-c. violins and luthiers’ tools » in Digital Approaches to Art History and Cultural Heritage.. , ,