Study for Designing Novel Gels to Clean an Aged Varnish on a Stone Painted Work of Art: DSC, FT-IR and Viscosity Analysis

Il recupero e la manutenzione della Gipsoteca di scultura antica del Dipartimento Culture e Società dell’Università degli Studi di Palermo

The Department Cultures and Societies of the University of Palermo in Italy owns a collection of forty plaster casts of ancient sculpture, dating back to the age of the academic teaching of Antonino Salinas (1841- 1914). In the intentions of the great archaeologist of Palermo, the plaster cast collection was of unavoidable help to teach classical art, in line with the contemporary usages of the Italian and foreign Universities. In the following decades, as everywhere, the collection progressively ended up by losing its central position in the study of archaeology, according to the transformations and the developments of the discipline over the twentieth century. In the latest times, all the…

Calorimetric, FT-IR and Viscosity Investigations to Designnovel Cleaning Agents for Removing Linseed Oil Based Varnish