Alessandro Sardella, Stefano Natali, Carlo Del Grande, Riccardo Cacciotti, Alessandra Bonazza
Cultural and natural heritage (CNH) are persistently at risk due to the impact of extreme climate events, with an increasing frequency over time due to climate change. The assessment and monitoring of these effects impose new and continuously changing conservation challenges and urgently needs for innovative preservation and safeguarding approach. Research into user-driven solutions/tools and mitigation/adaptation strategies, is therefore urgently required, based on sound scientific studies, capitalization of achieved knowledge, transferring and dissemination of results and coordinated...
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Mariano Sanfilippo, Rosaria E. Musumeci, Domenico Patanè, Vincenzo Sapienza, Enrico Foti
The Italian territory is particularly exposed to natural phenomena such as landslides, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, subsidence and coastal erosion which every year cause several dozen victims and considerable damage to cultural and environmental heritage sites. In this work, an assessment of the debris flow hazard for the UNESCO site of Villa Romana del Casale (Italy) was carried out, through geomorphological, hydrological investigations, and 2D numerical hydraulic modeling. The analysis has been carried out both at a large scale, by including the entire catchment area, and at...
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Roberta Somma, Giuseppe Paladini, Sebastiano Ettore Spoto, Francesco Caridi, Vincenza Crupi, Monica Interdonato, Valentina Venuti
A preliminary investigation was carried out on two different colored tourmalines (TMs), sourced by the Mineral and Gem collection of the Messina University (Messina, Italy). The employment of μ- Raman spectroscopy allowed to unambiguously recognize the mineral sub-group these species belong to, starting from the molecular composition. Through X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF), the elemental composition of the studied gemstones was achieved, identifying the chromophores responsible for the observed colorations. The obtained results allowed to define the mineral “fingerprinting” and get...
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Antonella Cinzia Marra, Fabrizio Sudano, Adriano Guido
The site of Cessaniti (Vibo Valentia, Calabria, southern Italy) is here presented as a virtuous example of cooperation among researchers, palaeontology amateurs, and local administrations, under the supervision of the competent Superintendence of Archeological Heritage. The collaboration allowed the recovering, preservation, study, analysis and musealization of a huge palaeontological heritage, located in a popular touristic area. The site of Cessaniti and the surrounding area released an impressive abundance of fossil echinoids and other invertebrate, associated with marine and terrestrial...
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Francesco Armetta, Dario Giuffrida, Barbara Fazzari, Carmelo Malacrino, Anna Arcudi, Maria Luisa Saladino, Rosina Celeste Ponterio
The Roman thermae in Reggio Calabria (Italy) provides many information regarding both engineering and technology for this type of buildings. A small treasure of three survived mural paintings encloses information about the artistic style and the ancient luxury of the baths. In order to get light on the executive technique and conservation state we performed the investigation of these paintings by following a non-invasive approach composed of multispectral imaging and spectroscopic analysis. By so doing, we determined the pigment palette and the distribution of some pigments allowing us to...
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Giacomo Fiocco, Michela Albano, Curzio Merlo, Tommaso Rovetta, Chaehoon Lee, Francesca Volpi, Andrea Bergomi, Claudia Asia Pini, Chiara Andrea Lombardi, Carlo Mariani, Valeria Comite, Paola Fermo, Marco Malagodi, Vittoria Guglielmi
One of the greatest masters of northern Italian art between the 15th and 16th centuries is certainly Bernardino Luini, who was strongly influenced along with other important artists of his period by the painting technique of Leonardo da Vinci. In this paper, we report the results of the analytical campaign conducted on two wall paintings depicting the Marriage of the Virgin and the Adoration of the Christ Child made by Luini in the Santuario della Beata Vergine dei Miracoli in Saronno (Italy) between 1525 and 1529. The multi-analytical approach through X-ray fluorescence (XRF), Fourier...
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Roberta Somma
During the Bronze Age, essential advances occurred in the field of architecture. Roundhouses and tombs with circular stone walls appeared. The present research aims to geolocate the sources of raw building materials used by workmen during the Bronze age to construct a Mycenean-type tholos tomb discovered in the alluvial plain of the Messina Ionian slope (Fiumara Gazzi). The used method has foreseen the geological, sedimentological, structural, mineralogical, and petrographic mesoscopic analyses of the tomb’s building stones to compare them with the rock features of the surrounding geological...
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Roberta Somma, Monica Interdonato, Giuseppe Paladini, Francesco Caridi, Sebastiano Ettore Spoto, Valentina Venuti, Maria Rosaria Renna
The mineral and geological historical collections reported here were part of the original collections of the Mineralogy Institute at the University of Messina, most of which date back to the 1880s. These historical collections, today hosted by the Earth Sciences Section of the Department of Mathematical and Computers Sciences, Physical Sciences and Earth Sciences at the University of Messina, comprise a thousand specimens of minerals, gemstones, ores, rocks, hundreds of topographic, geographical, and geological maps, mineralogical and geological models, and numerous original documents and...
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Valeria Pennisi, Graziana D'Agostino, Marianna Figuera, Gloria Russo, Mariateresa Galizia, Pietro M. Militello, Rosaria E. Musumeci
Archaeological heritage protection starts with a complete understanding of the area's morphology and the risk that threatens its integrity. With this aim, a multidisciplinary approach is applied. A hydraulic analysis based on a digital terrain survey is implemented to respond to archaeological questions. The case study is the Hypogeum of Calaforno (Ragusa, Sicily). This site is a unique representation of rock-cut architecture in terms of size and morphological features that render it one of the most important prehistoric monuments in Sicily. The analyses are performed to show the importance...
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Riccardo Vettraino, Valeria Valentini, Paola Pogliani, Marco Ricci, Stefano Laureti, Serena Calvelli, Giovanni Messina, Luca Lanteri, Claudia Pelosi
This paper summarizes the main results of the study, restoration and diagnostics applied to the 16th century wall painting (a portion of the frieze and the Riario coat of arms) in Palazzo Gallo (Bagnaia, Viterbo – Central Italy) recently concluded and object of a master's degree work in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage. Innovative imaging techniques were used for the first time on a wall painting on-site: Hypercolorimetric Multispectral Imaging (HMI) and Pulse-compression Thermography (PuCT), combined with more traditional analysis. Multispectral imaging allowed for mapping...
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