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Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks pp 171–178Cite as

The Conservation Intervention on the Porta della Mandorla

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We investigated the conservation problems of the Porta della Mandorla, a masterpiece of the early Florentine Renaissance. The aim of the work was the statement of practicable cleaning protocols based on laser ablation. To this goal, a thorough petrographic characterisation of the state of conservation was performed, which addressed a set of laser cleaning tests by Q-switching and short free running Nd:YAG lasers. The main optimisation problem was the yellow-orange appearance associated with laser ablation by Q-switching lasers. Following the explanation of such a cleaning result, two practicable solutions based on suitable pulse duration or wavelength selections were successfully demonstrated then different intervention protocols were proposed.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Istituto di Fisica Applicata, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Florence, Italy

    S. Siano & R. Salimbeni

  2. Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence, Italy

    A. Giusti, D. Pinna & S. Porcinai

  3. Istituto di Geochimica Ambientale e Conservazione del Patrimonio Culturale Lapideo, Italy

    M. Giamello & G. Sabatini

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Lasercenter FH Münster, Stegerwaldstr. 39, 48565, Steinfurt, Germany

    Klaus Dickmann

  2. FO.R.T.H./I.E.S.L., P.O. Box 1527, Vassilika Vouton, 71110, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Costas Fotakis

  3. Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0360, USA

    John F. Asmus

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Siano, S. et al. (2005). The Conservation Intervention on the Porta della Mandorla. In: Dickmann, K., Fotakis, C., Asmus, J.F. (eds) Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 100. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27176-7_22

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