The “Lost Guardians” of Dante’s <i>Inferno</i>: Medium Wave Infrared Imaging Investigations of a XIV Century Illuminated Manuscript
On the occasion of the 700th centenary of the death of Dante Alighieri, medium wave infrared imaging analysis of illuminations of the XIV-century code of the <i>Divina Commedia</i> (MS. 1102), hosted in the <i>Biblioteca Angelica</i> in Rome, was performed and discussed. The...
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| author | Noemi Orazi Fulvio Mercuri Cristina Cicero Giovanni Caruso Ugo Zammit Sofia Ceccarelli Stefano Paoloni |
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| description | On the occasion of the 700th centenary of the death of Dante Alighieri, medium wave infrared imaging analysis of illuminations of the XIV-century code of the <i>Divina Commedia</i> (MS. 1102), hosted in the <i>Biblioteca Angelica</i> in Rome, was performed and discussed. The investigation was carried out by means of thermographic and reflectographic techniques on illuminations where the iconographic representation appeared severely damaged. In particular, through the combined use of both techniques, it was possible to recover the images of the damaged parts of the pictorial layer of the illuminations and of their underdrawings, displaying details of the “lost guardians”, which was useful to reconstruct the conservative history of the precious manuscript. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a29b2a97c6954654ad4891ba074162bb2023-11-23T16:54:25ZengMDPI AGHeritage2571-94082022-05-0152991100210.3390/heritage5020054The “Lost Guardians” of Dante’s <i>Inferno</i>: Medium Wave Infrared Imaging Investigations of a XIV Century Illuminated ManuscriptNoemi Orazi0Fulvio Mercuri1Cristina Cicero2Giovanni Caruso3Ugo Zammit4Sofia Ceccarelli5Stefano Paoloni6Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Rome, ItalyDipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Rome, ItalyDipartimento di Studi Letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Via Columbia 1, 00133 Rome, ItalyIstituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale (ISPC), Italian National Research Council (CNR), Via Salaria Km 29.300, 00010 Rome, ItalyDipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Rome, ItalyIstituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “Mauro Picone” (IAC), Italian National Research Council (CNR), Via dei Taurini 19, 00185 Rome, ItalyDipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Rome, ItalyOn the occasion of the 700th centenary of the death of Dante Alighieri, medium wave infrared imaging analysis of illuminations of the XIV-century code of the <i>Divina Commedia</i> (MS. 1102), hosted in the <i>Biblioteca Angelica</i> in Rome, was performed and discussed. The investigation was carried out by means of thermographic and reflectographic techniques on illuminations where the iconographic representation appeared severely damaged. In particular, through the combined use of both techniques, it was possible to recover the images of the damaged parts of the pictorial layer of the illuminations and of their underdrawings, displaying details of the “lost guardians”, which was useful to reconstruct the conservative history of the precious manuscript.https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/5/2/54pulsed infrared thermographyMWIR reflectographyilluminationsimaging investigationsunderdrawingsDante’s <i>Inferno</i> |
| spellingShingle | Noemi Orazi Fulvio Mercuri Cristina Cicero Giovanni Caruso Ugo Zammit Sofia Ceccarelli Stefano Paoloni The “Lost Guardians” of Dante’s <i>Inferno</i>: Medium Wave Infrared Imaging Investigations of a XIV Century Illuminated Manuscript Heritage pulsed infrared thermography MWIR reflectography illuminations imaging investigations underdrawings Dante’s <i>Inferno</i> |
| title | The “Lost Guardians” of Dante’s <i>Inferno</i>: Medium Wave Infrared Imaging Investigations of a XIV Century Illuminated Manuscript |
| title_full | The “Lost Guardians” of Dante’s <i>Inferno</i>: Medium Wave Infrared Imaging Investigations of a XIV Century Illuminated Manuscript |
| title_fullStr | The “Lost Guardians” of Dante’s <i>Inferno</i>: Medium Wave Infrared Imaging Investigations of a XIV Century Illuminated Manuscript |
| title_full_unstemmed | The “Lost Guardians” of Dante’s <i>Inferno</i>: Medium Wave Infrared Imaging Investigations of a XIV Century Illuminated Manuscript |
| title_short | The “Lost Guardians” of Dante’s <i>Inferno</i>: Medium Wave Infrared Imaging Investigations of a XIV Century Illuminated Manuscript |
| title_sort | lost guardians of dante s i inferno i medium wave infrared imaging investigations of a xiv century illuminated manuscript |
| topic | pulsed infrared thermography MWIR reflectography illuminations imaging investigations underdrawings Dante’s <i>Inferno</i> |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/5/2/54 |
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