Multianalytical Approaches Applied to Conservation and Restoration Strategies in Cultural Heritage
A special issue of Heritage (ISSN 2571-9408).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 90
Special Issue Editors
2. National Research Council of Italy—Institute on Membrane Technology (CNR—ITM), Rende, Italy
Interests: cultural heritage; conservation; stone materials; archaeometry; environment; degradation processes; consolidants and protective coatings
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Interests: microanalytical techniques; laser ablation ICP-MS; provenance; obsidian; degradation of stone; mortars
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Interests: archaeometry; cultural heritage; archaeological obsidians; non-destructive analytical methods; X-ray fluorescence; provenance studies; raw materials; ancient glasses and ceramics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The conservation and restoration of cultural heritage, both in outdoor and indoor conditions, is becoming increasingly complex due to many concomitant factors including environmental pollution and climate change. The acceleration of degradation processes, as well as the growing awareness of the value of cultural heritage as a resource to be protected and handed down to future generations, makes a multi-analytical and multi-disciplinary approach necessary to define suitable, effective, sustainable and long-lasting restoration and conservation strategies. Furthermore, the deepened knowledge of the ancient materials provided by analytical techniques (e.g., SEM-EDS, optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction, ICP-MS, FT-IR, Raman) supplies important information about provenance, composition, and microstructures, and the potential degradation processes affecting them; this is useful in defining the suitable products and strategies to apply.
This Special Issue is focused on, but not limited to, recent studies where analytical techniques have been crucial in the conservation and restoration of ancient materials. Specifically, those materials which have been used as part of our cultural heritage, such as mortars, glass, pigments, stones, and metals.
We welcome both practical and methodological contributions.
Dr. Natalia Rovella
Prof. Dr. Donatella Barca
Dr. Anna Maria De Francesco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- conservation
- restoration
- consolidation
- coatings
- protective products
- provenance
- ancient materials
- degradation
- characterisation
- archaeometry
- pigments
- mortars
- frescoes
- mosaics
- stone
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