Il principio marino del barocco. Sensualità, onirismo, provocazione by Baldine Saint Girons

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FORS, Fiber Optics Reflectance Spectroscopy con gli spettrometri miniaturizzati per l’identificazione dei pigmenti by Antonino Cosentino

“…The FORS system was also tested on a 1800s oil painting and on 1700s Sicilian baroque murals and the results compared with multispectral imaging analysis.…”
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The overlapped skyline of the Baroque cities in the Val di Noto. by Salvatore Santuccio

“…The work of representation of these historical centers, presented here, is the result of three years of on-site workshops, held with a group of American students, precisely on the theme of the drawing of Sicilian baroque.</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">The main innovation was in the changing of the traditional system of representation of the horizontal urban view, with a descriptive organization that presented, through vertical fragments, the system of overlapping spaces. …”
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Pore Structure and Water Transfer in <i>Pietra d’Aspra</i> Limestone: A Neutronographic Study by Luciana Randazzo, Giuseppe Paladini, Valentina Venuti, Vincenza Crupi, Frédéric Ott, Giuseppe Montana, Michela Ricca, Natalia Rovella, Mauro Francesco La Russa, Domenico Majolino

“…Neutron radiography (NR) was here applied to study the effects of two different commercially available consolidants on the water absorption properties in a particular type of limestone (biocalcarenite), known as <i>Pietra d’Aspra</i> stone, which is one of the most extensively used lithotypes in Sicilian Baroque buildings. Our attention was mainly focused on the evaluation, using a fast and nondestructive visualization of water motion through capillarity, of the effectiveness of such layers as consolidating agents in view of preserving and maintaining both old and modern structures. …”
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