Fresco wall paintings are one of the oldest artforms in our cultural heritage, dating back to
the second millennium BC. In this work, we carry out a thorough review on the evolution of …

In Roman wall paintings, blue and green colours are less commonly encountered than red
and yellow and were more expensive. Despite this, Pliny and Vitruvius describe the more …

In this study, several wall painting fragments discovered in the Roman baths from the
archeological site Alburnus Maior (Roşia Montană, Romania) were analyzed with the aim to …

The characterization of red pigments in frescoes wall paintings has been of great interest for
researchers to better understand raw material procurement dynamics, pigment receipts …

In this paper, a new analytical approach based on smartphone digital-images analysis
coupled to chemometrics is proposed to investigate the nature of different pigments of …

Non-invasive techniques (X-ray fluorescence, XRF, and Raman spectroscopy) were used for
the study of the Hispano Muslim wall paintings. Principal component analysis (PCA) was …

This study aims to describe the composition, texture, and arrangement of mortars and
pictorial layers from a newly excavated Roman archaeological site in the province of …

Establishing affordable, efficient, accessible, innovative, and multidisciplinary
methodologies to the diagnosis of the conservation state of an artwork is key to carry out …

In this work the study of the green pigments employed by ancient Romans in the decoration
of 50 wall fragments from buildings of different ages located in seven archaeological sites of …

El presente trabajo aborda el estudio arqueométrico y arqueológico de un pequeño
fragmento de escultura monumental romana procedente del asentamiento urbano de El …