Antonella Bertino- University of Catania
Antonella Bertino
- University of Catania
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In the last few decades, the field of Cultural Heritage conservation and restoration experienced the development of new materials that are progressively equalling, and in some cases replacing, the traditional ones. The aim of this paper is to develop geopolymers specifically designed for the application in the conservation of polychrome surfaces, p...
The Cathedral of Cefalù (Sicily, Italy), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2015, was built during the Norman rule and is famous for its magnificent mosaic. The mosaic apparatus, located in the apsidal area of the Cathedral, recently underwent extensive conservation work. Besides the mosaic tesserae , this area of the Cathedral was subjected to int...
Partendo dalla riflessione circa la partecipazione culturale nella città di Catania, con un focus specifico sulla categoria dei giovani in età scolare, emerge un dato allarmante: la città, infatti, è la prima in Italia e in Europa per dispersione scolastica, con conseguente aumento di criminalità minorile e del mercato del lavoro in nero. Diventa,...
Ochres are natural deposits particularly enriched in iron oxides and hydroxides giving them their typical colours
spanning from bright red to yellow or brown. For this reason, they have been widely exploited over millennia for
artistic purposes, becoming among the most known pigments.
A series of 16 iron-based powder pigments including both commerc...
The latest frontier of studies on coral of gemological interest is species assignment through the characterisation of the nucleotide sequence and thus on the basis of the coral's DNA. Indeed, within this sequence are encoded the genes of every living organism, as well as the instructions for expressing them in time and space (regulation of gene exp...
Painted architectural terracotta fragments, presumably belonging to the ancient archaeological site of Caere (Cerveteri), dated back to 530-480 B.C., have been analysed by petrographic observation in order to scientifically assess the provenance hypothesis and, contemporarily, improve our knowledge regarding the manufacture technology on this kind...
