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As previous studies have presumed that outbreak of molds on oil paintings selectively develop depending on color, the present study investigated the difference of development under antifungal testing using pigments and mediums. The results have shown that pigments containing cobalt and zinc as major components have higher antifungal ability compared with oil painting samples that are applied only with mediums. Furthermore, this study suggests that mediums used in oil paintings are resistant to molds, and thus application of corresponding vehicles could alleviate antifungal activity. Previous experiments using commercially available paints have proven that the types of mediums and mixing ratio change depending on the pigment used. Nonetheless, evaluation of each pigment regarding their antifungal ability was understudied, even within the area of study. However, this research enabled to show that some types of pigments could facilitate or inhibit mold development. As pigments are usually mixed when applied to oil paintings, further research could be done on the antifungal ability of mixed pigments. Additionally, this research was conducted using fungal strain isolated from real oil paintings, but different results have been shown from many of them. Therefore, additional experiments using different bacterial strains could be conducted in order to further understand the relation between types of pigments and their antifungal ability. |
