Antonio Donato, Mauro Francesco La Russa, Aybuke Sultan Koca, Marco Aquino, Sergio Santoro, Efrem Curcio, Michela Ricca
The constant exposure of the stone cultural heritage to the combined action of atmospheric agents and pollution represents a threat to its conservation and protection. Nano-sized titanium dioxide (TiO2) materials have been widely used as protective coatings due to their ability to create self-cleaning surfaces, thus limiting maintenance costs and promoting the degradation of pollutants. The present work aims to test innovative and selfcleaning products based on TiO2 for applications in the field of cultural heritage. The properties of TiO2- based materials were evaluated by capillary water...
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· 2022
· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2022.077
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Maria Pia Albanese, Luciana Randazzo, Mauro Francesco La Russa, Armando Taliano Grasso, Maurizio Paoletti, Michela Ricca
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how a disciplinary approach is an excellent tool in the field of forensic investigations, capable of answering the questions posed by the institution and obtaining as different and as much information as possible on the findings analyzed, reconstructing the history of often decontextualized artifacts. In the present work, the results of the FTIR-ATR and SEM-EDX analyses performed on micro-fragments and powders taken from a marble bas-relief, seized by the Cosenza Carabinieri Unit for the Protection of Cultural Heritage and Anti-Counterfeiting...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2022.076
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Andrea Bergomi, Valeria Comite, Paola Fermo, Michela Ricca, Mattia Borelli, Cristina Maria Belfiore, Luciana Randazzo, Mauro Francesco La Russa
In the last decades there have been several studies on cultural heritage regarding the performance of protective and consolidating coatings for the prevention of decay. A coating must have several characteristics such as: efficiency, breathability, and must be durable and reversible. In this research work we tried to verify the performance of a commercial protective product such as Fosbuild FBLE 200, which is composed of a TiO2 nanopowder dispersed in an aqueous solution of an acrylic polymer. This product, which exhibits depolluting, antimicrobial, water-repellent and self-cleaning...
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· 2022
· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2022.075
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Michela Ricca, Maria Pia Albanese, Fabio Bruno, Loris Barbieri, Andrea Macchia, Mauro Francesco La Russa
The "An Ocean of Science" project promotes effective interventions and innovative educational paths to support the growth of knowledge and skills in schools, helping competent institutions to guarantee more inclusive cohesion policies with a high cultural and scientific impact. The project also supports innovation in education and training by providing opportunities for cultural and socio-educational development within the framework of the cultural heritage located in the marine environment and the protection of the sea.
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2022.074
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Carlo Trigona, Eliana Costa, Giuseppe Politi, Serena Rapisarda, Anna M. Gueli
This article describes the application of a measurement system in the field of cultural heritage conservation, and, in particular, to a canvas painting applied on a wooden support. The artwork is placed inside a niche in the Monastero of Santa Caterina in Palermo (Italy). It is a historical painting by the painter Giuseppe Patricolo depicting the Deposition. Considering the presence of the wooden structure, it is important to measure mechanical vibrations that can in fact cause degradation phenomena in wooden structures. The main objective of the presented research is the characterization...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2022.073
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Giuseppe Stella, Alessia D'Anna, Agata Di Stefano, Rosaria Galvagno, Francesca La Perna, Andrea Matamoros, Graziana Mendosa, Giuseppe Politi, Anna Maria Gueli
In the standard luminescence dating methodologies the general equation used to determine the age in luminescence dating is given by the ratio between the Equivalent Dose (ED) and the Annual Dose rate (AD). The ED, measured using luminescence signals, is the total absorbed dose starting from the last "zero event" while the DR, evaluated by in situ and extra situ radioactivity measurements, represents the rate at which energy is absorbed from natural radioactivity present in the sample and in the environment. For samples for which information on environmental dose contribution is lacking,...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2022.072
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Adriana Incardona, Dario Allegra, Giuseppe Furnari, Rosaria Galvagno, Serena Rapisarda, Filippo Stanco, Giuseppe Stella, Anna Maria Gueli
The present work was carried out as part of the CLEAR project, which aims to create a virtual diagnostic laboratory for polychrome artifacts through the definition of an image acquisition and processing protocol with high resolution and accuracy in terms of colour rendering. To achieve this goal, contact spectrophotometric and distance spectroradiometric measurements for colour specification will be performed. All data will be used for the processing, training, and validation of a predictive model for the evaluation of colour differences and for the creation of a two-way correspondence...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2022.071
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Lara De Giorgi, Giovanni Leucci, Lucrezia Longhitano, Nicola Masini, Chiara Torre
Reflection seismic, GPR and penetrometer surveys, were performed at the Manfredi Castle (Supersano, Lecce, Italy) in order to help the engineers in the restoration work. The study tries to understand: 1) whether, using high-resolution reflection seismic data, is possible to provide an essentially continuous structural image of the shallow subsurface; 2) to reconstruct, using both seismic and penetrometer surveys, the bedrock surface below the castle; 3) to discover, using GPR data, the presence of features of archaeological interest. From a technical perspective, the survey was successful....
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2022.070
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Maurizio Delli Santi
The GIS for the systematic filing of the farms in the territory of Oria (province of Brindisi) has been organized in such a way that the common characteristics of the buildings can be detected immediately: in this perspective, appropriate tables have been drawn up, converted into special formats, to be dynamically connected to the artefacts and vector themes being analyzed. These tables, beyond the peculiar typological, structural, constructive and architectural characteristics, offer fundamental technical data and results so that an orderly and efficient recovery plan for the farms present...
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Nicodemo Abate, Mariano Prodomo, Alessia Frisetti, Nicola Masini
This paper aims to propose an Extended Matrix approach to the medieval castle of Monteforte Irpino (Avellino, Campania, Italy), for the reconstruction and understanding of archaeological contexts after excavation and documentation activities. Extended Matrix (EM) is a particular approach to HBIM (Heritage Building Information Model) mainly based on the reconstruction of archaeological context starting from several type of data, such as: archaeological data, survey data, stratigraphic evidences, bibliographic sources, comparison. Thanks to the use of three-dimensional photogrammetry from UAS...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2022.068
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