Diagnostics in Cultural Heritage (11/17/2011
- 11/18/2011) 
Place: Roma, IT
Address: Auditorium of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Via della Lungara, 230 Roma, IT
The
International Workshop on Diagnostics at the Accademia Nazionale
dei Lincei, intends, in the framework of the International Year of
Chemistry 2011, to represent a forum for researchers and
practitioners from academia, industry, and government involved
toward more successful and long-lasting conservation and
protection of cultural heritage. As a Foresight Event of the FP7
CHARISMA project, the Workshop aims to spread the knowledge on the
most recent achievements in analytical technologies and diffuse the
practice of exploitation of novel techniques.
Significant advances have been done in recent years in diagnostics
applied to the study and conservation of cultural heritage, thanks
to developments of innovative micro-analytical techniques,
the availability of new optical fibers transparent to
radiations in a wide range of wavelength, the development of
micro-and nano-electronics that permitted to enhance performances
and reduce the dimensions of electronic devices, the application of
nanoscience to conservation problems, the development of new
devices for high resolution imaging and accurate sensing, or the
exploitation of computational modelling.
These progresses opened new ways for a better understanding of
causes and mechanisms of alteration processes, for finding
optimal solutions in early stage identification of
degradations, for improving the efficacy, safety and
durability of conservation interventions, or for introducing
innovations in monitoring of inorganic and organic materials
to prevent damages.
After the second day conclusions, in the presence of the public and press, a demonstration of diagnostic non-invasive investigations, will be directly carried out on the fresco Il trionfo di Galatea by Raphael and Polifemo by Sebastiano del Piombo at the Galatea Hall of the Villa Farnesina alla Lungara, on paintings from the Galleria Corsini and on illuminated manuscripts from the Academy's Library. The portable spectroscopic techniques used in the measurements are those available in the Mobile Laboratory, MOLAB, European infrastructure of the FP7 CHARISMA project (X-ray fluorescence, mid and near FT-IR, micro-Raman, UV-Vis absorption and emission, NMR-Mouse depth-profiler, IR multispectral imaging, XRD), integrated with those of the Laboratorio di Diagnostica, Spoleto.
Further information
Programme
Prof. Antonio Sgamellotti e-mail: sgam@thch.unipg.it
