Guest Editors:
Dr. Luca Pezzati
Coordinator - Gruppo Beni Culturali
CNR - INOA, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata
Largo E. Fermi 6, 50125 Florence, ITALY
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E-mail: [email protected]; http://arte.ino.it
Prof. Dr. Brunetto Giovanni Brunetti
Dipartimento di Chimica, Laboratorio di Chimica Generale
Universita' di Perugia
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E-mail: [email protected]; http://www.chm.unipg.it/chimgen/mb/exp2/brunetti.html
Deadline for Paper submission: 31 August 2008
Summary
Science and technology have become fundamental tools for the preservation of Cultural Heritage. New technologies are developed and used for documentation, study and preservation of works of art, archaeological sites, historical buildings and other relevant objects of cultural interest. This research field has been constantly growing in recent years and now involves many of the disciplinary areas of modern science. The major aim of scientific investigations in art diagnostic is the acquisition and safe storage of reliable information on the studied object. The simple storage of data is in itself a very important tool for preservation. The ideal case would be the acquisition of a complete database containing all the relevant information on the state of the object to be preserved, and very often we cannot even guess on what information will be relevant in years to come.
In modern measuring systems, the measurement scheme often used is the chain “source-object-sensor-computer” for active systems and “object-sensor-computer” for passive ones. Where data are to be recorded, to gather information on a studied object, sensors plays a fundamental role. For instance, the availability of imaging sensors like the CCD opened the way to a number of very important applications in the optical analysis of artworks. The coupling of sensors with digital systems has been another major breakthrough and it is now mandatory both in laboratory and field use.
Diagnostic and restoration projects of masterpieces frequently use many different techniques, requiring the use of many kinds of different sensors. Monitoring the environment conditions of sites, like museums, buildings or archaeological sites, requires wide nets of different sensing devices. The field covered by this special issue is then huge, due to the vastness of the type of information that can be acquired on cultural heritage objects. Contributions are expected in the fields of sensors for physical measurements, for chemical and biological analyses, for environmental monitoring, and for other fields of interest to cultural heritage diagnostics.
Keywords
physical sensors, chemical sensors, environmental sensors, sensors for optical analyses, 3D and tomography, imaging, colour measurement, spectral methods, elemental analysis, art diagnostics
Published Paper
Mauro Bacci *, Costanza Cucci, Andrea Azelio Mencaglia and Anna Grazia Mignani
Istituto di Fisica Applicata “Nello Carrara” (IFAC-CNR), 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy; Tel.: +39-055-5226370, Fax: +39-055-5226374; E-mails: c. [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: [email protected]
Received: 29 January 2008 / Accepted: 18 March 2008 / Published: 22 March 2008
Full Research Paper: Innovative Sensors for Environmental Monitoring in Museums
Sensors 2008, 8, 1984-2005 (PDF format, 363 K)
Planned Papers
Title: "Fully Non Contact Holography-based Inspection on Dimensionally Responsive Artwork Materials"
Author: Vivi Tornari
Foundation for Research and Technology - (FORTH), Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, P.O. Box 1385, GR - 711 10, Heraklion Crete, Greece; Tel.: +30 2810 391300, Fax: +30 2810 391305
E-mail: [email protected]; http://www.iesl.forth.gr/contact-info/index.asp
Title: "Nondestructive characterization by advanced synchrotron light techniques: spectromicroscopy and coherent radiology"
Author: Giorgio Margaritondo, Yeukuang Hwu and Jung Ho Je
EPFL, Lausanne, E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: The advanced characteristics of synchrotron light sources made it possible in recent years to develop a series of new experimental techniques with particular emphasis on microscopic chemical and physical properties. Although mostly developed for materials science and the life sciences, such techniques find broadening applications in other domains like the study and conservation of the cultural heritage. We concentrate here on two class of techniques: in the first case, photoemission spectromicroscopy. This is the result of the advanced evolution of techniques like ESCA (Electron Microscopy for Chemical Analysis). By adding high lateral resolution to the capabilities of the corresponding spectroscopies, Such techniques can deliver fine chemical information on a microscopic scale in a nondestructive fashion, The second class of techniques is based on the high lateral coherence of modern synchrotron source, a byproduct of the quest for high brightness or brilliance. We shall see that such techniques now push radiology into the submicron scale and the submillisecond time domain, Furthermore, they can be implemented in a tomographic mode, increasing the information and becoming quite useful for specific cultural heritage specimens.
Title: "Characterization of laser cleaning of artworks"
Author: Jan Marczak *, Andrzej Koss **, Piotr Targowski ***, Michalina Gora ***, Marek Strzelec *, Antoni Sarzynski *, Wojciech Skrzeczanowski *, Roman Ostrowski * and Antoni Rycyk *
* Institute of Optoelectronics, Military University of Technology, 2 Gen. S. Kaliskiego Str., 00-908 Warsaw, Poland
** Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Wybrzeze Kosciuszkowskie 37, 00-379 Warsaw, Poland
*** Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, ul. Grudziadzka 5, 87-100 Torun, Poland
Abstract: The main tasks of conservators of artworks and monuments are the estimation and analysis of damages (present condition), object conservation (cleaning process), and the protec�tion of an object against further degradation. One of the physical meth�ods that is becoming more and more popular for dirt removal is the laser cleaning method. Laser method is non-contact, selective, local, controlled, self-limiting, gives imme�diate feedback and preserves even the gentlest of relief - the trace of a paintbrush. Paper presents application of different, selected physical sensing methods to characterize condition of works of art as well as laser cleaning process itself. It includes, tested in our laboratories, optical surface measurements (e.g. colorimetry, scatterometry, interferometry), infrared thermography, optical coherent tomography and acoustic measurements for “on-line” evaluation of cleaning progress. Results of laser spectrometry analyses (LIBS, Raman) will illustrate identification and dating of objects superficial layers.
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