LABORATORY OF ARCHAEOMETRY
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2015/2016
- Teacher
- FERRUCCIO CARLO PETRUCCI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- FIS/01
Training objectives
- Finality of the course is preparing the student to execute a scientific diagnostics of a pictorial work, using the physical techniques based on electronic acquisition of images and signals. At the end of the course any student will have tested by himself those techniques on paintings, verifying their informative power for material recognition, artwork conservation and restoration.
Prerequisites
- basic practice on personal computers
Course programme
- The course deals with the most well known physical techniques applied to cultural heritage. Among these, image diagnostics such as documentary and raking light photography, UV fluorescence, IR reflectography, X-Ray radiography. Moreover, sampling techniques such as spectrophotometry and X-ray fluorescence.
The techniques that do not involve the use of ionizing radiation will be the subject of laboratory exercises and will be directly employed by the students.
X-ray and XRF will instead be examined and discussed, together with the corresponding results for knowledge purposes.
The interpretation of results of these techniques is devoted to draw informations, in a non-invasive way, on painting layers, their structure, composition and alterations. Didactic methods
- Lectures and applications in lab
Learning assessment procedures
- Written report on the activities carried out in the laboratory and oral exam
The report is drawn up by a group of 3-4 students, who perform together the diagnostics, and corrected before the examination. It receives an independent evaluation, which is averaged with the vote of the individual oral examination. Reference texts
- Aldrovandi, Picollo
Metodi di documentazione e indagini non invasive sui dipinti
Il Prato, Padova
Milazzo, Ludwig
Misurare l'arte
Bruno Mondadori
Collana Campus
