Foreword and acknowledgements

Joyce H. Townsend, Lucia Toniolo and Francesca Cappitelli

From science laboratory to conservation practice

Conservation science in the UK c.2007

Joyce H. Townsend

Where is heritage science in the UK?

James Tate

Contributions made by science to the Italian theory of restoration: an art historian's views

Giorgio Bonsanti

The education and training of conservation scientists

Rocco Mazzeo

Developments in conservation practice

Laser removal and chemical characterisation of graffiti paint spray and felt-tip markers

on stone monuments

Inez D. van der Werf, Edoardo Andriani, Antonio Albanese, Giuseppe Daurelio,

Danilo Marano, Luigia Sabbatini and Ida M. Catalano

Wax-based anti-graffiti coatings on artificially patinated copper: effects on copper release and patina composition

Sara Goidanich and Inger Odnevall Wallinder

Protection of stone surfaces against graffiti by perfluoropolyether derivatives

Simone Jacopo Marzolla, Maurizio Licchelli, Federico Caro and Giovanni Moggi

Shake, rattle and roll: vibration effects at the Hampton Court Music Festival

Ian Gibb, Adrian Phillips, Kathryn Hallett and Kate Frame

Development and evaluation of new treatments for outdoor bronze monuments

Rocco Mazzeo, Sven Bittner, Gilles Farron, Rute Fontinha, Daniel Job, Edith Joseph,

Paola Letardi, Martin Mach, Silvia Prati, Manuela Salta and Anaele Simon

Comprehensive investigation of the 'organic patina' on Renaissance and Baroque indoor bronze sculptures from the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Vaclav Pitthard, Sabine Stanek, Martina Griesser, Helene Hanzer and Claudia Kryza-Gersch

Analysis of pigments from Pompeian wall paintings in the house of Marcus Lucretius

Ulla Knuutinen, Hanne Mannerheimo and Seppo Hornytzkyj

The agricultural side of world heritage: Italian case studies in a metropolitan area

Stella Agostini

Decay markers in polymers for the conservation of outdoor stone monuments

Monica Favaro, Franco Ossola, Patrizia Tomasin and Pietro Alessandro Vigato

The My Son temples in Vietnam: study of the materials for the preservation project

Luigia Binda, Cristina Tedeschi, Paola Condoleo, Erica Mannucci and Giuseppe Zerbi

Problems in drawing up standards to evaluate effectiveness and harmfulness in

cleaning operations

Antonio Sansonetti, Anna Maria Mecchi, Tommaso Poli and Marco Realini

Experimental study of the growth dynamics of artificially induced calcium oxalate

films for the conservation of marble

Dario Benedetti, Annalisa Zacco, Elza Bontempi and Laura Eleonora Depero

An evaluation of adhesives used for the repair of marble

Mersedeh Jorjani

Chemical-physical and aerobiological measurements for indoor air quality at the

Ca' Granda Historical Archive, Milan, Italy

Paola Fermo, Francesca Cappitelli, Andrea Piazzalunga, Roberta Vecchi, Gianluigi Valli, Elisabetta Zanardini and Claudia Sorlini

Microwave treatment: a non-invasive technique for disinfestation of works of art

Francesco Augelli, Bruno Bisceglia, Marco Ferri, Federica Foppiani, Elisa Italiano,

Antonio Diaferia, Nicola Diaferia, Federica Magli, Roberta Mastropirro, Alessandra Rizzo, Valerio Rosito and Roberta Tessari

Monitoring microbial colonisation on works of art by confocal microscopy and

molecular biology techniques

Franco Palla and Giovanni Morici

Biodeteriogenic fungi isolated from historic window glass in Certosa di Pavia, Italy

Maria Guglielminetti, Chiara Buratti, Elena Savino, Athos Callegari, Bruno Messiga

and Maria Pia Riccardi

Exploring water-based methods for the consolidation of waterlogged wood

Valter Castelvetro and Antonella Manariti

The sustainable consolidation of waterlogged wood: new approaches of impregnation

and polymerisation with a low environmental impact

Maria Perla Colombini and Francesca Modugno

Analysis of organic materials in nineteenth-century wallpapers by infrared spectroscopy

Alfredo Sarmiento, Maite Maguregui, Elisabetta Princi, Silvia Vicini, Kepa Castro,

Mar�a Dolores Rodriguez-Laso, Enrico Pedemonte and Juan Manuel Madariaga

The characterisation of materials in a polychrome wooden sculpture and the evaluation

of laser cleaning tests

Stamatis C. Boyatzis, Paraskevi Pouli, Anastasia Giakoumaki, Agnes Terlixi,

Eleni Tziamourani, Maria Philippoussi, Eugenia Perdikari and Eleni Ioakimoglou

PROPAINT: improved protection of paintings during exhibition, storage and transit

Terje Grontoft, Elin Dahlin, Marianne Odlyha, Mikkel Scharff, Guillermo Andrade,

Peter Mottner, Janusz Czop and Maria Perla Colombini

A study of Russian painting canvases

Anna Y. Mazina

Examining acrylic dispersion grounds and paints

Yonah Maor, Alison Murray, Alison Beaton, Alison Chown, Eric Hagan, Mike Kwong,

Crystal Maitland, Padina Pezeshki and Connor Twohig

The restoration of two blue and white Chinese porcelain plates: new applications of

colour science and analytical chemistry

Norman H. Tennent, Bodill Lamain, James H. Nobbs, Samantha Pugh, Samuel Lawton and Johannes T. van Elteren

Raman and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) characterisation of image deterioration in

daguerreotypes from the studio of Southworth and Hawes

Silvia A. Centeno, Taina Meller, Nora W. Kennedy and Mark T. Wypyski

Non-destructive testing

Chemical imaging techniques for the characterisation of materials and techniques in the art of gilding: a case study from a mural by F. Lippi

Ilaria Bonaduce, Jaap J. Boon, Maria Perla Colombini and Giancarlo Lanterna

Optical and surface metrology applied to daguerreotypes

Patrick Ravines, Ralph Wiegandt, Richard Hailstone and Grant Romer

Recent developments in fluorescence spectroscopy for the analysis of protein-based

binding media found in art

Austin Nevin, Daniela Comelli, Gianluca Valentini, Iacopo Osticioli, Demetrios Anglos, Aviva Burnstock, Sharon Cather and Rinaldo Cubeddu

Scanning hyperspectral lidar fluorosensor: a new tool for fresco diagnostics

Francesco Colao, Roberta Fantoni, Luca Fiorani and Antonio Palucci

A multi-analytical approach to the conservation of wall paintings

Giovanni Cavallo, Julian James and Giacomo Luzzana

Microspectrofluorimetry: a new technique to unveil red paints

Ana Claro, Maria J. Melo, Stephan Schafer, J.S. Seixas Melo, Fernando Pina,

Klaas Jan van den Berg and Aviva Burnstock

A multispectral approach to non-invasive investigation of weld lakes and weld-dyed textiles

Catia Clementi, Costanza Miliani, Aldo Romani, Gianna Favaro and Antonio Sgamellotti

Application of surface-enhanced vibrational spectroscopy techniques for the non-invasive analysis of flavonoid dye molecules

Zuzana Jurasekova, Concepcion Domingo, Jose Vicente Garcia-Ramos and

Santiago Sanchez-Cortes

Hyperspectral image spectroscopy: a 2D approach to the investigation of polychrome

surfaces

Marcello Picollo, Mauro Bacci, Andrea Casini, Franco Lotti, Marco Poggesi

and Lorenzo Stefani

Non-invasive imaging of subsurface paint layers with optical coherence tomography

Haida Liang, Borislava Peric, Marika Spring, David Saunders, Michael Hughes

and Adrian Podoleanu

Optical coherence tomography: a novel tool for the examination of oil paintings

Ludmila Tyminska-Widmer, Piotr Targowski, Michalina Gora, Magdalena Iwanicka,

Teresa Lekawa-Wyslouch and Bogumila Rouba

Spectral transparency of historic artists' pigments

Borislava Peric, Sophie Martin-Simpson, Marika Spring and Haida Liang

Production and characterisation of lead-tin-antimony based yellow pigments

Claudia Pelosi, Ulderico Santamaria, Giorgia Agresti, Elisabetta Mattei and Alberto De Santis

Studying restorations through colorimetry: Andrea Mantegna's Madonna dei Cherubini, and Madonna Forti formerly attributed to Antonello da Messina

Gianluca Poldi and Simone Caglio

A portable XRF-XRD instrument for in-situ analysis of cultural heritage objects

Alessandra Gianoncelli, Jacques Castaing, Luc Ortega, Eric Dooryhee, Myriam Eveno, Joseph Salomon, Pierre Bordet, Jean-Louis Hodeau and Philippe Walter

Portable XRF for the examination of artists' materials and cultural heritage

Chris McGlinchey and Karen Trentelman

Transcribing nature on paper: effortless complexity in Winslow Homer's watercolours

Francesca Casadio and Kristi Dahm

X-ray fluorescence of the mural paintings in the crypt of St Bavo's Cathedral,

Ghent, Belgium

Marina Van Bos and Walter Schudel

A scanning device for multispectral imaging of paintings

Claudio Bonifazzi, Pierluigi Carcagni, Andrea Della Patria, Raffaella Fontana, Marinella Greco, Maria Mastroianni, Marzia Materazzi, Enrico Pampaloni, Luca Pezzati and Afra Romano

A portable multispectral imaging system for remote in-situ examination of wall paintings

Haida Liang and Tom Vajzovic

Characterisation of cultural artefacts using electrochemical techniques

Virginia Costa

Identification of degradation products in historical bricks by means of combined Raman

spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy

Maite Maguregui, Riccardo Tagliapietra, Manuel Angulo, Irantzu Martinez-Arkarazo,

Kepa Castro, Juan Manuel Madariaga and Alan Brooker

Ground penetrating radar: a non-destructive tool to assess the condition of rock art sites

Frederic Huneau, Stephane Hoerle, Alain Denis and Andrew Salomon

Progressive colour change in museum objects: a case study at the National Cinema

Museum, Turin, Italy

Chiara Aghemo, Anna Pellegrino and Gabriele Piccablotto

Characterisation of carbonaceous particulates at the molecular level by means of

innovative optical techniques

Giuseppe Zerbi, Matteo Tommasini, Giorgio Fustella and Anna Ferrugiari

Paper, wood and other polymers

Study of degradation of ancient paper using neutron techniques

Claudia Mondelli, Parker Stewart and Annibal Cuesta Ramirez

Use of an ecopermanence index to characterise the oxidation of aged paper

Luigi Campanella and Cecilia Costanza

The use of polymeric materials in the field of paper conservation

Elisabetta Princi, Silvia Vicini and Enrico Pedemonte

Biodeterioration effects of fungi on inorganic components in paper

Flavia Pinzari, Antonella De Mico and Giovanna Pasquariello

A substrate utilisation pattern (SUP) method for evaluating the biodeterioration

potential of micro-aeroflora affecting libraries and archival materials

Flavia Pinzari and Mariasanta Montanari

Respirometry: a technique to assess the stability of archaeological wood and other materials containing sulphur compounds

Theo Skinner and Mark Jones

Consolidation of waterlogged woods by in-situ polymerisation of isoeugenol

Marco Orlandi, Pasquale Agozzino, Dorina Ines Donato, Gianna Giachi, Eeva-Liisa Tolppa and Luca Zoia

Observing penetration of acrylic solutions into wood with neutron radiography and

Raman spectroscopy

Irena Kucerova, Eberhard Lehmann, Martina Ohlidalova and Miroslava Novotna

Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) monitoring of the artificial ageing of commercial

acrylic and vinyl adhesives/consolidants

Stamatis C. Boyatzis, Demetrios Charalambous and Eleni Kotoula

On-site collections management: NIR characterisation and condition monitoring

of modern textiles

Emma Richardson, Graham Martin and Paul Wyeth

Investigations of an ultramarine blue acrylic artists' paint

Rebecca Ploeger and Alison Murray

Ageing properties and stability of artists' alkyd paints

Rebecca Ploeger, Dominique Scalarone and Oscar Chiantore

Architecture

Conservation meets modern architecture: technological study of the metal surfaces in the Tugendhat House in Brno, Czech Republic

Tatjana Bayerova and Martina Griesser-Stermscheg

Cast stone: characterisation, use, deterioration and conservation methods

Roberto Bugini, Danilo Biondelli and Valeria Saltari

Preliminary investigation of Er:YAG laser ablation for the removal of lichen from stone

Adele DeCruz, Richard A. Palmer, Chicita F. Culberson, Alessia Andreotti,

Maria Perla Colombini and Daniela Pinna

Investigation of the conservation of epoxy resin-bonded artificial stone

Martina Huckova and Petr Kotlik

A new approach to conservation mortars designed for the urban environment

Ioannis Karatasios, Vassilis Kilikoglou, Panagiotis Theoulakis, Belinda Colston and David Watt

New perspective on consolidation of historical mortars: silicate esters on alkaline

substrates

Petr Kunes and Petr Kotlik

Polymeric grids for the rehabilitation of masonry structures

Alberto Dusi, Marco Mezzi and Elena Manzoni

Dry ice blasting as a cleaning method for historical buildings: preliminary assessment

of feasibility, efficiency and compatibility

Vilma Gabriela Rosato, Umberto Casellato, Monica Favaro and Silvia Susana Zicarelli

Monitoring the deposition of airborne particulate matter on treated stone surfaces

Nikolaos-Alexis Stefanis, Ioannis Karatasios, Maria Kliafa, Panagiotis Theoulakis,

Vassilis Kilikoglou and Cristodoulos Pilinis

Problems caused by moisture and salt migration in the Capithulum Hall of the

Dome Cathedral, Riga, Latvia

Jana Svare, Linda Krage, Inta Vitina, Rolands Lusis and Lauma Lindina

Characterisation of mortars and stuccos from the Theatre of Marcellus and the

Porticus Octaviae in Rome

Mauro Tomassetti, Luigi Campanella, Paola Ciancio Rossetto, Tania Gatta

and Rossella Grossi

Brownish alterations on the marble statues of Orsanmichele (Florence): a diagnostic

approach

Lucia Toniolo, Alfredo Aldrovandi, Roberto Boddi, Andrea Cagnini, Annamaria Giusti,

Daniela Pinna, Simone Porcinai, Rinaldo Cubeddu, Daniela Comelli and Gianluca Valentini

Mediterranean marble identification by chemical instrumental and chemometric methods

Giovanni Visco, Luigi Campanella, Emanuela Gregori and Mauro Tomassetti