Multitechnique diagnostic analysis and 3D surveying prior to the restoration of St. Michael defeating Evil painting by Mattia Preti
| Autor: | Giuseppe Mantella, Vincenza Crupi, Emanuele Colica, Valeria Comite, Sante Guido, Sebastiano D'Amico, Luciano Galone, Domenico Majolino, Michela Ricca, Paola Fermo, Mauro Francesco La Russa, Valentina Venuti, Luciana Randazzo, Giuseppe Paladini |
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| Přispěvatelé: | D'Amico S., Comite V., Paladini G., Ricca M., Colica E., Galone L., Guido S., Mantella G., Crupi V., Majolino D., Fermo P., La Russa M. F., Randazzo L., Venuti V. |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Painting
Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Oil painting media_common.quotation_subject 3D photogrammetric survey Conservation Globigerina limestone Lunette Mattia Preti Multitechnique analysis Pigment’s identification Spectrometry X-Ray Emission government.political_district General Medicine Art Pollution St. Michael Palette (painting) Photogrammetry Diagnostic analysis Computer graphics (images) Spectroscopy Fourier Transform Infrared Microscopy Electron Scanning government Environmental Chemistry Paintings PIGMENTING AGENTS Settore GEO/09 -Georis. Miner.e Appl.Mineral.-Petrogr. per l'Ambi.ed i B.Cult media_common |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29:29478-29497 |
| ISSN: | 1614-7499 0944-1344 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11356-021-15880-5 |
| Popis: | In this study, a multimethodological analysis involving optical and physical/chemical diagnostic techniques and 3D photogrammetric survey was successfully applied, for the first time, on the large oil on canvas St. Michael defeating Evil painting by Mattia Preti, located inside the Church of the Immaculate Conception of Sarria (Floriana) in Malta. Pigmenting agents, binder media, and raw materials were first characterized, both at elemental and molecular scales, through X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF), optical stereo microscopy (SM), scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDX), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The main goal was to properly identify the execution technique of this famous painter, the artist's palette, and possible nondocumented interventions. The 3D photogrammetric survey, on the other side, allowed us to noninvasively evaluate the extension of the areas that experienced restorations, and to properly map the domains of the different canvasses observed. The joints between canvasses suggested that the painting was folded and rolled up. In addition, the employment of a thermal camera gave evidence of the different consolidating material injection points used during the restoration to strengthen the painting. The obtained results offer useful information for the development of optimized restoration and conservation strategies to be applied and provide, at the same time, answers to open questions related to provenance and dating of the investigated artwork. |
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