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Le statue della “Porta Marmorea” di Siracusa
2022
Viene preso in esame il primo recupero di sculture antiche di cui abbiamo memoria per Siracusa, tramandato da Fazello che ne riferisce il ritrovamento nel 1530 nella zona dell‟istmo tra Ortigia e la terraferma, nel corso di lavori edili al Castello Marchetto. Delle sette statue marmoree ricordate, almeno tre possono essere ancora individuate nel Museo “Paolo Orsi”: 1) una statua iconica femminile velato capite degli inizi dell‟età imperiale, raffigurante quasi certamente una dama impe-riale e proveniente da contesto ufficiale (nel Foro?); 2) un torso di Dioniso del secondo quarto del II secolo d.C., che po-trebbe avere attinenza col santuario di Dionysos Morychos presso l‟istmo; 3) il framm…
Some tests of 3D ultrasonic traveltime tomography on the Eleonora d'Aragona statue (F. Laurana, 1468)
2013
Abstract The use of a non-destructive technique in situ can be a valuable diagnostic tool to support verification of restoration, as well as a monitoring technique in works of art or historical monuments. We present a high resolution 3D ultrasonic tomography to one of the most important statues of the Regional Gallery of Palazzo Abatellis of Palermo, the bust of Eleonora d'Aragona by F. Laurana (1430–1502). This technique allowed to study the structural continuity of the material of the marble. Some tests have been carried out to optimize inversion parameters, such as voxel size and to choose between straight and curved rays. We propose to calculate a minimum lateral resolution using the sa…
NMR relaxation in modern wood and treated and untreated wood from a XVI century wooden statue
2007
Longitudinal (T1) relaxation data are presented for European lime (Tilia cordata Mill) wood samples, a modern sample and two from a XVI century wooden statue, one of which samples is treated with Paraloid B72 for preservation. The 1H signals from liquid and solid are separated in the free induction decays (FID). T1 distributions are obtained by UPEN and show two resolved peaks for the liquid component of either untreated wood but a wide distribution for the liquid of the treated sample. In each case, the solid component showed a single peak, which for either untreated sample was at about the position of the longer T1 liquid peak. We compute geometric-mean times, T1-gm, 2.1 and 36 ms for the…
Preliminary study on analysis and removal of wax from a Carrara marble statue
2015
This preliminary study has mainly focused on the wax identification by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and removal. Wax is used for many purposes in the field of art as protective coatings on wooden, stone or metal objects. From the comparison of the spectra H NMR and in particular with the correspondence of the resonance peaks of the samples taken from the statue and beeswax and paraffin, we can conclude that the wax applied on the statue surface is beeswax. From our data, it can be concluded that, to remove the beeswax, from any stone support, the more effective solvent is the mixture of cyclohexane/ethyl acetate. The removal percentages ranged from 19 to 99%. Lower percentages of remova…
Les bronzes figurés antiques du Musée de Mâcon (Saône-et-Loire, F)
2011
In the course of its history, the Musee des Ursulines, at Macon, collected about 10 bronze figurines, some of them found as early as the mid-17th c. This article describes this largely unpublished collection and its scientific implications. Among the new data appears a votive bronze statuette, of italic type, found locally and datable to the Vth-IVth c. BC.
Spectrophotometric investigations at the museum: monitoring of colour changes during differentiated cleaning of the marble statues
2011
The spectrophotometric investigations carried out during the cleaning treatments on the marble surface provide an useful support for choosing the best method to employ by monitoring, before and after the tests, both the chromatic coordinates and the spectral reflectance. Moreover, the colorimetric measurements allow us to evaluate the goodness of the chromatic level and the uniformity of the cleaned areas. The Laboratory of Physics and Indoor Environment of the Regional Center for Planning and Restoration has carried out the spectrophotometric investigations on the marble statues belonging to the Renaissance statuary collection of the Regional Gallery of Sicily Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo …
Dioniso a Capodarso ? Ricostruzione di una statua fittile di divinità seduta in trono
2013
The analysis and reinterpretation of three coroplastic fragments found in the 1960s at the Capodarso site (in the province of Enna) allow us to attribute them to a single artefact and, in particular, to a life-size statue seated on a throne, probably a cult statue.
La estatua marmórea del duque de Lerma en el castillo de Dénia, obra de Giuseppe Carlone
2018
On the 28th of August of 1612, Juan Vivas de Canamas, the ambassador of king Philip III in Genoa, commissioned the Genoese sculptor Giuseppe Carlone to carve a large statue made of Polveracio white marble representing, according to the drawing attached to the contract, the figure of a knight. The portrait depicts none other than the Duke of Lerma, whose marble effigy was intended to preside in his castle and palace of the Valencian city of Denia and was installed there at the end of 1613. In this sense, the work is historically framed in the process of renovation of the castle that Lerma began at the end of the 16th century and that included the incorporation of this exclusive artistic comm…
Per tirare le fila
2018
Il contributo trae le conclusioni del seminario "Simbolo e gesto" con riferimento all'apporto dello studio della coroplastica nell'ambito dei Gender studies.
Compte rendu de : Caroline Van Eck, François Lemée et la statue de Louis XIV. Les origines des théories ethnologiques du fétichisme, Paris Éditions d…
2017
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