Earthquake prediction on 6 April 2009, the Abruzzo region of central Italy was rocked by a magnitude M 6.3 earthquake. In the city of L'Aquila and surrounding area around 60,000 buildings collapsed or were seriously damaged, resulting in 308 deaths and 67,500 people left homeless. Around the same time, it was reported that Giampaolo Giuliani had predicted the earthquake, had tried to warn the public, but had been muzzled by the Italian government. Giampaolo Giuliani was a laboratory technician at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. As a hobby he had for some years been monitoring radon using instruments he had designed
Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art Manuscript Revealed" (2010, M-Museum of Leuven) and "Rogier van der Weyden 1400/1464 – Master of Passions" (2009, M-Museum of Leuven) In addition, the research centre publishes four in-house publications: "Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts", "Art and Religion", "Studies in Iconology", and "Iconologies". Illuminare also produces exhibition catalogues and colloquium proceedings. In 2017, the Royal Flemish Academy for Sciences and the Arts bestowed the whole Illuminare team with the annual Science Communication Prize, in recognition of the exhibition "In Search of Utopia." Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art Illuminare – Centre for the Study of Medieval Art KU Leuven,