Light allows us not only to see the works of art, but also to take care of them and preserve them for future generations, through diagnosis of the degradation and deterioration phenomena, ...conservation treatments, and monitoring based on light-material interaction processes. Recent progress on this subject was discussed during the 13th International Conference on Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks (LACONA XIII, Florence, Italy, 12-16 September 2022). This volume includes selected contributions presented at the conference on preservation topics, photonic techniques, and optimization methods. In particular, the papers focus on the development and use of innovative spectroscopic and imaging characterization techniques, the diagnostic knowledge of important artworks, and the optimization of the laser solution for preserving a growing variety of cultural assets, such as stone and metal artefacts, painted surfaces, textile, feather, and plastic artefacts. Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks XIII aims at scholars and operators of the community of preservation of cultural heritage, at teachers and students of training courses on diagnostic and conservation methods, applied physics, and chemistry, as well as archaeology and art history.
Villa Borbone show up to the eye of the attentive traveler immersed in the geometries of a lush garden, fading into the motility of the coastal landscape. A set of buildings, including the small ...chapel steeped in classical suggestions, is a part of what once constituted the vast property of the ducal family. An incredibly precious heritage, which this book aims to account for, restoring its history, its materiality, but also all its fragility, in an attempt to define a path that can contribute to its preservation.
The article considers the role of metal elements in the formation of the urban environment of the provincial Orenburg in the 19th – early 20th century. Variants of use of metal elements in public, ...industrial and residential buildings made using various industrial and artisan processes are considered with examples of how metal frames and architectural elements were incorporated in industrial buildings and how metal art was employed for architectural decoration. Consideration is given to variants of forging artworks from metal rod, performated metal and monumental and decorative cast-iron items.
A pathbreaking call to halt the intertwined crises of
cultural heritage attacks and mass atrocities and mobilize
international efforts to protect people and cultures.
Intentional destruction of ...cultural heritage has a long history.
Contemporary examples include the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan,
mosques in Xinjiang, mausoleums in Timbuktu, and Greco-Roman
remains in Syria. Cultural heritage destruction invariably
accompanies assaults on civilians, making heritage attacks
impossible to disentangle from the mass atrocities of genocide, war
crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing. Both seek to
eliminate people and the heritage with which they identify.
Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities assembles essays by
thirty-eight experts from the heritage, social science,
humanitarian, legal, and military communities. Focusing on
immovable cultural heritage vulnerable to attack, the volume's
guiding framework is the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), a United
Nations resolution adopted unanimously in 2005 to permit
international intervention against crimes of war or genocide. Based
on the three pillars of prevent, react, and rebuild, R2P offers
today's policymakers a set of existing laws and international norms
that can and-as this book argues- must be extended to the
protection of cultural heritage. Contributions consider the global
value of cultural heritage and document recent attacks on people
and sites in China, Guatemala, Iraq, Mali, Sri Lanka and
Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen. Comprehensive sections on vulnerable
populations as well as the role of international law and the
military offer readers critical insights and point toward research,
policy, and action agendas to protect both people and cultural
heritage. A concise abstract of each chapter is offered online in
Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish to facilitate robust,
global dissemination of the strategies and tactics offered in this
pathbreaking call to action. The free online edition of this
publication is available at
getty.edu/publications/cultural-heritage-mass-atrocities. Also
available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the
book.
Following the investigative paths, the author interlaces a series of documents and clues to delineate the events of the restoration of the Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier, but above all the role played ...by the various actors involved in this story, which is still not closed. From George Everard Kidder Smith to the multifaceted Jean-Louis Véret, who would in fact become the villa’s most stubborn conservator and interpreter, starting with the writing of his Carnet d’identité, one of the most ambiguous and fascinating sources for the history of the restoration of modern architecture. Susanna Caccia Gherardini, thanks to her research time as Guest Scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, thus adds a new piece to the studies she has already published on the subject.
The gaze of the Grand Tour travellers on the Lungarni of Pisa, in the background of the nineteenth-century process of transformation of the banks and buildings that surround it, helping to define its ...cultural vocation. The turning point coincided with the second post-war period and began with the conversion of the former convent of San Matteo into a national museum, designed by Piero Sanpaolesi. The project is part of the international debate on culture and museum practice, offering important topics for reflection on the relationship between restoration and musealization, museums, city and recovery of river banks. With the theory of museums in diachronic continuity and contiguity of path (Palazzo Reale, Palazzo Lanfranchi, Palazzo Blu, Navi di Pisa and science), the concept of 'system' takes shape, as a set of multiple museums, between them different, but united by the link with the territory that welcomes them, represented by the Arno that crosses the city and its history.
Artwork is a unique tool for studying human memory and its neural underpinnings. This review evaluates the role of art in memory research, employing novel experimental and computational methods to ...understand how art is stored and retrieved. We underscore the significance of naturalistic neuroimaging and advanced statistical analysis in understanding the memory encoding of artworks. We suggest that the memorability of artwork may be tied to enhanced memory consolidation during rest or sleep. Art triggers more than simple recall; it involves a personalized reconstruction of memories. To measure this reconstruction, we propose using drawing and memory-based writing as innovative memory tests, and Deep Neural Networks (DNN) to compare behavioral and neural patterns during both encoding and retrieval phases. Art thus emerges as a profound medium to probe the complex interactions between memory and cognitive, emotional, and social processes, with implications for disciplines including art and communication.
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•Forensic analysis of artwork.•Pigment analysis by FTIR.•Pigment analysis by XRF.•Analysis of artworks by MA-XRF.•Scientific analysis of analytical data.
This work studied suspicious ...and authentic artworks by Brazilian painters Ivan Serpa, Ismael Nery, and Iberê Camargo by XRF, FTIR, OM, and MA-XRF techniques. The studies made it possible to verify that all suspicious artworks are counterfeit artifacts. The analyses were conducted in situ, and different approaches were applied for data treatment. For example, principal component analysis and spectral deconvolution were performed on the XRF data. From these methods, it was possible to verify that the suspect artworks by Ivan Serpa and Iberê Camargo have different materiality than the authentic paintings. Additionally, MA-XRF images did not reveal the presence of a polychrome preparation layer in the suspicious paintings by Ivan Serpa. The suspect artworks from Ismael Nery exhibited a Ca-K/Ti-K ratio that indicates they were created on a low-quality paper support, which is not suitable for paintings. The differences in materials used in the suspicious and authentic artworks are further supported by the FTIR and OM results. In addition to the physicochemical analysis, the paintings were studies graphotechnical examinations, financial evaluations, and artistic analyses that demonstrated they were counterfeit artifacts. The results of the analysis demonstrate how physicochemical techniques can contribute to the forensic investigation of paintings. However, this work highlights the importance of applying distinct treatments to the XRF data in order to accentuate the differences between the suspect and authentic artworks.
Summary
Over the last two decades, the biotechnologies applied to Cultural heritage (CH) have become a successful novel alternative to the traditional approaches in the CH conservation and ...preservation. From these new perspectives, microorganisms and their metabolisms can be used for the safeguarding of artworks. Biocleaning is a field with a growing interest, based on eco‐friendly processes and safe procedures, where biological reactions occurring in natural habitats are optimized in artificial conditions with the aim of CH conservation. This represents a new tool and opportunity for the development and improvement of the sector, with a great advantage for the CH conservation‐restoration, in terms of safety, effectiveness, costs and environmental sustainability. This review focuses on the use of microbes and enzymes involved in biocleaning of CH artworks. The aim is to provide a comprehensive, critical and chronological view of the scientific works published until now where ‘virtuous’ microorganisms are applied on different CH materials, pointing out strength and drawback of the biocleaning treatments.
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