ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |47 pages
PHOTONICS DIAGNOSTICS Painted surfaces
chapter |9 pages
Rubens's Death of Hippolytus (1610-12): How scanning XRF shed new light on old questions
chapter |10 pages
Use of non-invasive methods of analysis applied to the study of Oscar Pereira da Silva paintings
part |28 pages
Metal artefacts
chapter |11 pages
LIBS vs XRF on underwater heritage: The silver coins of “Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes”
part |74 pages
LASER TREATMENTS Painted surfaces
chapter |17 pages
Laser cleaning in the conservation of archaeological artifacts: Polychrome wooden objects from ancient Egypt
chapter |9 pages
Preliminary study and implementation of nanosecond NIR fibre laser in conservation of polychrome heritage objects
chapter |10 pages
Egyptian limestone polychrome statues: Laser cleaning in comparison with traditional methods
part |53 pages
Fibrous and membranous material artefacts
chapter |10 pages
Laser cleaning of an eighteenth-century waistcoat from the Civic Museums of Modena: Preserving silk and metallic threads
chapter |9 pages
Diagnostics and conservation of an archaeological ‘coin purse' from the Vesuvian area
part |59 pages
Stone and metal artefacts