Scientific investigation of cultural heritage objects plays a vital role in a responsible modern
approach to conservation and archaeology. Recent advances in spectroscopy, such as the …

The relevance of FT-IR spectroscopy in heritage science has experienced a constant grow
in the last two decades owing to analytical peculiarities that make it an extremely useful tool …

We present an overview of recent advances in the application of Fourier Transform Infrared
(FTIR) microscopy for analysis of complex, multicomponent, and multilayer samples such as …

Redox processes activated by environmental factors have been identified as the main cause
of the chromatic alterations of a number of artists' pigments, including the yellow pigment …

We studied the interactions of rabbit glue, a collagen-based proteinaceous binder, with
azurite (Cu 3 (CO 3) 2 (OH) 2), calcium carbonate (CaCO 3), hematite (Fe 2 O 3· nH 2 O) …

Ascertain the distribution of materials and that of their degradation products in historical
artifacts is crucial to understand their conservation status. Among the different analytical …

This work studies the applicability of a Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform
handheld device to perform in situ analyses on Cultural Heritage assets. This portable …

For more than a century, the analyses of painting fragments have been carried out mainly
through the preparation of thick resin-embedded cross-sections. Taking into account the …

This work addresses the evaluation of an innovative mutianalytical method to assess the
conservation state of a fifteenth century palace house. With the goal of reducing the …

We report the development of innovative embedding procedures for the analysis of paint
cross sections by attenuated total reflection (ATR) Fourier transform IR microscopy. This …