This review is to be considered part of the development of the MEMORI dosimeter, to
evaluate the impact of climate (relative humidity, temperature, illumination, etc., including …

Minerals, as raw structural materials or pigments, play a fundamental role in archaeometry,
for the understanding of nature, structure and status of an artefact or object of interest for …

Driven by the need to study precious and irreplaceable artworks without compromising their
integrity, researchers have undertaken numerous efforts to develop noninvasive analytical …

Both conservation and intervention methods must be compatible with each other and
appropriate for the original building materials. Therefore, the characterization of historic …

This work reports the results of an extensive study carried out on the wall paintings
preserved inside the Saint Stephen's chapel in Montani (Val Venosta, Bozen, Italy), by …

This article presents an integrated approach for the authentication of five Russian icons
through the study of their paint materials (elemental composition and stratigraphic mapping) …

The present work aims to give an overview of the research published in the last 20 years on
the study of mediaeval wall paintings using complementary analytical diagnostic techniques …

(1) Background: Due to the precarious situation of many monuments or archeological sites,
analytical investigations are necessary to obtain information about the used materials, as …

The present analytical study focuses on the degradation phenomena observed in fifteenth
century wall paintings of the Christ Antiphonitis monastery in Cyprus. Examination of ten …

A multidisciplinary research was conducted by the University of Salento in collaboration with
the Lecce Provincial Museum, in order to study different forms of art widespread in the …