Ancient & Historic Metals: Conservation and Scientific Research

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Название: Ancient & Historic Metals: Conservation and Scientific Research

Издательство:J. Paul Getty Museum

Автор:Edited by David A. Scott, Jerry Podany, and Brian B. Considine

Год:1995

Количество страниц:304

Язык:English

Формат:pdf

Размер:12,8 Mb

The sixteen essays in this volume reflect a wide range of research concerning methods for metals conservation, particularly in respect to ancient and historic objects. The variety of issues discussed includes considerations in the cleaning of ancient bronze vessels; the processes involved in bronze casting, finishing, patination, and corrosion; studies of manufacturing techniques of gold objects in ancient African and medieval European metalworking; techniques of mercury gilding in the 18th century; an investigation of patina in the classification of bronze surfaces from land and lake environments; an examination of bronze objects from the Benin Kingdom, Nigeria; the history of restoration of the Marcus Aurelius monument in Rome; the corrosion of iron in architecture; and applications of radiographic tomography to the study of metal objects.

Table of Contents

Preface

Miguel Angel Corzo and John Walsh

Foreword

David A. Scott, Jerry Podany, and Brian B. Considine

The Monument of Marcus Aurelius: Research and Conservation

Maurizio Marabelli

Restoration of the Monument of Marcus Aurelius: Facts and Comments

Paola Fiorentino

Bronze Objects from Lake Sites: From Patina to “Biography”

François Schweizer

The Royal Art of Benin: Surfaces, Past and Present

Janet L. Schrenk

Considerations in the Cleaning of Ancient Chinese Bronze Vessels

Jane Bassett and W. T. Chase

Tomography of Ancient Bronzes

Stephen D. Bonadies

Chinese Bronzes: Casting, Finishing, Patination, and Corrosion

W. T. Chase

The Corrosion of Bronze Monuments in Polluted Urban Sites: A Report on the Stability of Copper Mineral Species at Different pH Levels

Andrew Lins and Tracy Power

The Technology of Medieval Jewelry

Jack Ogden

Gold Foil, Strip, and Wire in the Iron Age of Southern Africa

Andrew Oddy

Conservation of Architectural Metalwork Historical Approaches to the Surface Treatment of Iron

Frank G. Matero

Techniques of Mercury Gilding in the Eighteenth Century

Martin Chapman

Production and Restoration of Nineteenth-century Zinc Sculpture in Denmark

Knud Holm

Real-time Survival Rates for Treatments of Archaeological Iron

Suzanne Keene

Conservation of Corroded Metals: A Study of Ships’ Fastenings from the Wreck of HMS Sirius (1790)

Ian Donald MacLeod

The Conservation of Outdoor Zinc Sculpture

Carol A. Grissom