Lorena Centarti, Carla Ferreyra, Caterina Gabriella Guida, Marco Limongiello, Barbara Messina
The possibility of integrating digital technologies facilitates the documentation and, consequently, the management of complex environments such as the Hypogean Heritage. The Grotta di San Michele Arcangelo, a natural cave located in the municipality of Olevano sul Tusciano, in the province of Salerno, is being selected as a case study to test the integration of different digital surveying technologies. Through the combined use of SLAM-based techniques, used for the acquisition of the interior space, and LiDAR-UAV techniques, for the exterior, an integrated point cloud was obtained from...
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· 2023
· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.102
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Roberto Barni, Carlo Inglese
The systematic study of Cistercian monastic complexes focuses on the Fossanova Abbey, presenting a unique challenge in Italian architecture. The lack of homogeneous and reliable documentation on the morphometric consistency of these structures, expressed through two-dimensional and three-dimensional models, has limited the completeness of historical-critical studies. By analyzing the floor plans and graphic materials, a significant discrepancy has been found compared to the actual structures, with regularization of axes and alignments that disregard vertical errors and offsets. To address...
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· 2023
· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.101
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Emanuela Chiavoni, Francesca Porfiri, Gaia Lisa Tacchi
The present study, through a methodology of integrated representation and survey, constitutes a contribution aimed at preserving the memory of a site of great historical, cultural and landscape value, monitoring its evolution over time. It is an integrated investigation of the original conformation of the Tiber Island in Rome, in particular of the remaining ancient portion of the so-called Stone Ship. The research aimed to compare historical iconography with two- and three-dimensional models derived from acquisitions performed with current methodologies and instruments. Through the study of...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.100
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Suset Barroso-Solares, Estefania Estalayo, Elvira Rodriguez-Gutierrez, Violeta Hurtado-Garcia, Ricardo Vicente-Rojas, Oscar Fadon, Julene Aramendia, Jose Carlos Coria-Noguera, Quentin Lemasson, Claire Pacheco, Angel Carmelo Prieto, Carlos Sanz-Minguez, Juan Manuel Madariaga, Javier Pinto
This work summarizes the results of a three-year project focused on the archaeometrical study of a collection of about one thousand pre-Roman glass beads found at the archaeological site of Pintia (Valladolid, Spain), located at the interior of Iberia. In addition to the morphological and contextual analysis of the entire collection, a representative set of 150 samples, including several unique and exquisite polychrome beads, have been studied in detail by diverse archaeometric techniques such as Raman spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence, PIXE/PIGE, X-ray tomography, among others. The combined...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.099
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Michele Russo, Luca James Senatore, Raffaella Giuliani, Rocco Bochicchio
The construction of virtual and physical copies of statues is not new, but it still contains several elements to investigate. On the one hand, the pipeline for the definition of a reliable physical copy, in terms of morphometrics and material, and on the other hand, the optimization of the digital models for their virtual fruition while preserving the distinctive features. These two steps require experimentation and comparisons, allowing the processes to be validated to reach scientifically accurate results. The article, starting from the case study of the head of Sant'Elena preserved inside...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.098
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Vincenzo Fioriti, Antonino Cataldo, Alessandro Colucci, Chiara Ormando, Fernando Saitta, Domenico Palumbo, Ivan Roselli
A mockup representing a historic masonry vault was tested on the shaking table and finally brought to collapse. During the seismic test, a video was taken and then processed by the motion magnification algorithm to magnify the smallest displacements. Subsequently, each frame of the video was translated into a graph to be analyzed by means of the graph theory centrality measures. Some graph standard parameters showed a significant variation in their value along the video frames before collapse. Therefore, such parameters showed the potential to predict the collapse of the structure.
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· 2023
· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.097
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Sara Croci, Leila Es Sebar, Caterina Gori, Leonardo Iannucci, Emma Angelini, Sabrina Grassini
This paper deals with a multi-analytical and long-term in-situ monitoring campaign for evaluating the state of conservation of some outdoor contemporary bronze sculptures of the environmental Gori Collection, at the Villa Fattoria di Celle, located in the municipality of Santomato, Pistoia, Italy. Digital twins of the Cavaliere and of one of the thirty-three figures of Katharsis have been made by means of 3D photogrammetry in order to characterize the artworks. On the same sculptures, the chemical composition of the corrosion patinas has been determined by Raman spectroscopy. Moreover, the...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.096
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Jose Santiago Pozo Antonio, Teresa Rivas, Pablo Barreiro, Vera Caetano, Fernando Carrera, Lara Bacelar Alves
This paper draws on the study of the prehistoric art complex of the Côa Valley in north-east Portugal. Its main goal was to apply an in situ methodology for characterising prehistoric rock paintings. Thus, panels exhibiting red motifs were analysed by colour spectrophotometry and portable Raman spectroscopy. Motifs, crusts developed on the decorated surfaces and the backdrop stones have been analysed. Motifs from four sites within this archaeological complex were grouped considering their CIELAB and CIELCH parameters L*, a*, b*, C*ab and h due to their different colours. Raman spectroscopy...
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Beatrice Calosso, Marialuisa Mongelli, Sara Pettisano, Samuele Pierattini
The main goal of the study carried out by ENEA described in this paper has been to create a three-dimensional virtual model of a sanguine drawing by Bernini, useful in the definition of the conservation status of the artwork and in facilitating the medium and long-term monitoring of the damage, highlighted and measured using Photogrammetry technique. The show up details will help further in-depth analysis to better know the historical, material, and iconographic characteristics of this drawing, crossing scientific data with archival data.
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.094
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Giorgio Saverio Senesi, Sara Mattiello, Vincenzo Palleschi, Bruno Cocciaro, Girolamo Fiorentino, Olga De Pascale
Two advanced analytical techniques, i.e., non-destructive portable Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (pED-XRF) and micro-destructive handheld laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (hLIBS) supported by a Graph Clustering method have been applied to identify the elemental composition and inner stratigraphy of five copper and two iron alloy artifacts originated from various ancient graves in the area of Minervino Murge (Barletta, Andria, Trani - BAT), Apulia, Italy. The main elements detected by both techniques were Cu, Sn and Pb in copper alloys and Fe with minor amounts of Cu and Pb in iron...
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· 10.21014/tc4-ARC-2023.093
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