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Papers by Andrea Del Bianco
heritage, 2023
Abstract: The present work intends to focus on the examination, analysis and treatment of Pace, a... more Abstract: The present work intends to focus on the examination, analysis and treatment of Pace, a
contemporary color photography experimental artwork created by Nino Migliori in 1973. Given the
particular nature of the artifact, in which the photographic materials and the media of contemporary
art coexist in a complex interaction, an in-depth study of its creation, structure and components was
deemed necessary to plan and perform an adequate conservation treatment. The preliminary research
was conducted in order to contextualize the artwork within the author’s production, to understand the
creation process, to identify the photographic technique of the print and the stratigraphic sequencing,
and to characterize the constituent materials of each layer through non-invasive and micro-invasive
diagnostic analysis. The severe detachments and lifts of the print from the underlying aluminum
panel and the subsequent planarity alterations of the photograph, strongly compromised the legibility
of the artwork and put its future conservation at risk. Therefore, the elaboration of a minimally
invasive intervention methodology was required. Approaching contemporary works of art, which
are at the same time also photographic objects, can present some theoretical and practical challenges,
and in the near future lots of professionals in the field of art conservation are probably going to face
analogue conservation problems on similar objects. The results obtained through the preliminary
study phase and the conservation treatment may offer a good starting point for further research on
how to examine, analyze and treat this kind of photographic objects.
Heritage Science, 2020
The paper discusses the case study of the Marriage at Cana, a sixteenth century wall painting loc... more The paper discusses the case study of the Marriage at Cana, a sixteenth century wall painting located in Ravenna and executed by Luca Longhi. A multi-analytical approach based upon OM, SEM–EDS, μ-Raman, μ-FTIR and biological analyses was selected to investigate the painting technique and the state of preservation of the artwork, compromised by a severe alteration. Data demonstrated that the artwork was executed with a dry painting technique: a siccative oil was used as binder, while indigo, lead white, carbon black, ochres, vermilion and red lead were identified as pigments. Biological analyses clearly allowed identifying Eurotium halophilicum as the fungus responsible for the white patina compromising the painted surface and, according to this result, Biotin T was selected as the most effective biocide to stop the biological attack. The precarious conditions in which the painting was, attributable to previously performed interventions and to the conservation environment, laid the g...
heritage, 2023
Abstract: The present work intends to focus on the examination, analysis and treatment of Pace, a... more Abstract: The present work intends to focus on the examination, analysis and treatment of Pace, a
contemporary color photography experimental artwork created by Nino Migliori in 1973. Given the
particular nature of the artifact, in which the photographic materials and the media of contemporary
art coexist in a complex interaction, an in-depth study of its creation, structure and components was
deemed necessary to plan and perform an adequate conservation treatment. The preliminary research
was conducted in order to contextualize the artwork within the author’s production, to understand the
creation process, to identify the photographic technique of the print and the stratigraphic sequencing,
and to characterize the constituent materials of each layer through non-invasive and micro-invasive
diagnostic analysis. The severe detachments and lifts of the print from the underlying aluminum
panel and the subsequent planarity alterations of the photograph, strongly compromised the legibility
of the artwork and put its future conservation at risk. Therefore, the elaboration of a minimally
invasive intervention methodology was required. Approaching contemporary works of art, which
are at the same time also photographic objects, can present some theoretical and practical challenges,
and in the near future lots of professionals in the field of art conservation are probably going to face
analogue conservation problems on similar objects. The results obtained through the preliminary
study phase and the conservation treatment may offer a good starting point for further research on
how to examine, analyze and treat this kind of photographic objects.
Heritage Science, 2020
The paper discusses the case study of the Marriage at Cana, a sixteenth century wall painting loc... more The paper discusses the case study of the Marriage at Cana, a sixteenth century wall painting located in Ravenna and executed by Luca Longhi. A multi-analytical approach based upon OM, SEM–EDS, μ-Raman, μ-FTIR and biological analyses was selected to investigate the painting technique and the state of preservation of the artwork, compromised by a severe alteration. Data demonstrated that the artwork was executed with a dry painting technique: a siccative oil was used as binder, while indigo, lead white, carbon black, ochres, vermilion and red lead were identified as pigments. Biological analyses clearly allowed identifying Eurotium halophilicum as the fungus responsible for the white patina compromising the painted surface and, according to this result, Biotin T was selected as the most effective biocide to stop the biological attack. The precarious conditions in which the painting was, attributable to previously performed interventions and to the conservation environment, laid the g...