ABSTRACT
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The application of analytical pyrolysis in any of its several variations — pyrolysisgas chromatography (Py-GC), pyrolysis-mass spectrometry (Py-MS), pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS), pyrolysis-gas chromatographyFourier-transform infrared (Py-GC/FTIR) — has proven to be one of the most useful approaches to analyzing materials of art and archaeology. Since our previous review
was published in 1989, four major conservation laboratories (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Conservation Institute, Musée du Louvre, and the National Gallery of Art [U.S.]) have become involved in the application of this analytical technique
to the analysis of organic media such as gums, waxes, natural resins, and synthetic polymers.
