Sponsored by: TECNO.EL s.r.l. Via degli Olmetti, 38 00060 Formello (RM) tel.: +39 06 9075534 fax: +39 06 9075536 web: www.tecno-el.it Front cover (clockwise from top left) Cross section from a sample taken from Virgin Surrounded by Flower. Green leaf over a red fl ower petal, showing the use of double ground. Credits: Enrique Parra, Larco química laboratory. Restoration of a Mural Paintings Passion Clock from Langestrand church, Vestfold county. Detail of the radiography where it is possible to observe the golden inscription underneath the Virgin chromatic layer. Radiography performed by José Figueiredo laboratory. The Holy Saviour triptych inside the chapel in the Tivoli Cathedral. Vault of Good Shepherd, Catacombs of Priscilla, Rome The Cavalcade of the Holy Cross, Church “Feast of the Cross” of Pătrăuț, Suceava, Romania Disclamer:The authors are fully responsible for the content of provided abstracts. No major revision has been applied by the editors. 6th European Symposium on Religious Art, Restoration & Conservation Proceedings Book ebook - ISBN 978 88 404 4368 3 ISSN 2036-1122 Edited by: Oana Adriana Cuzman Rachele Manganelli Del Fà Piero Tiano 6th European Symposium on Religious Art, Restoration & Conservation Florence, Italy 9-11 June 2014 GENERAL INDEX HONOR COMMITTEE INTRODUCTORY LECTURES I Dr. M. Ciatti (OPD, Florence - Italy) RESTORING RELIGIOUS ART - FROM THEORY AND ETHICS TO PRACTICE Dr. R. Pozzo Giorgio Bonsanti II (DSU-CNR, Rome - Italy) THE GILDING TECHNIQUES IN THE ANCIENT SACRED ART Card. Dr. G. Ravasi Mauro Matteini V (PCAS, Rome - Italy) RELIGIOUS INDO-TIBETAN ART: AN INTRODUCTION Mons. Dr. T. Verdon Massimiliano A. Polichetti IX (Uffi cio Arte Sacra e Beni Culturali Ecclesiastici and Director of Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence - KEYNOTE LECTURES 1 Italy) MONITORING AND MAINTENANCE: 2 KEY ASPECTS FOR THE CONSERVATION OF MOVEABLE AND IMMOVABLE CULTURAL HERITAGE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Adriana Bernardi 2 Dr. L. Bertani PRESERVATION AND USE OF THE RELIGIOUS SITES: THE CASE STUDY OF (Uffi cio Arte Sacra e Beni Culturali THE ROMAN CATACOMBS Ecclesiastici, Florence - Italy) Barbara Mazzei 5 Dr. M. E. Cadeddu THE SOUTHERN PORCH OF SUCEVIŢA MONASTERY - ARGUMENT FOR (ILIESI-CNR, Rome - Italy) THE EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN VISION Prof. Dr. M.P. Colombini Melniciuc Puică Ilie, Rusu Iulian 9 (ICVBC-CNR, Florence - Italy) NON-INVASIVE HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGING TECHNIQUE: A MULTI-TASK Dr. M. Gligor METHODOLOGY FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF ARTWORKS (‘1 Dec. 1918’ Univ. of Alba Iulia, Marcello Picollo, Andrea Casini, Costanza Cucci, Lorenzo Stefani 10 Alba Iulia - Romania) Dr. G. Lanterna HISTORIC AND ACTUAL MATERIALS FOR STONE CONSERVATION: AN (OPD, Florence - Italy) OVERVIEW Dr. B. Mazzei Barbara Sacchi 13 (PCAS, Rome - Italy) Dr. D. Petranova ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL EVALUATION 17 (Fac. of Mass Media Communication RELIGIOUS MURAL PAINTING OF GHEORGHE IOANID, CASE STUDY: of UCM, Trnava - Slovak Republic) CHURCHES FROM CRAIOVA AND VASLUI-ROMANIA Prof. Bogdan C. Simionescu Annamaria Baciu, Sabin Pompei Grapini 18 (“Petru Poni” Institute of Macromo- AN INTEGRATED MULTI - ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO THE RESTORATION lecular Chemistry, Iaşi - Romania) TH Prof. R. M. Souto OF A WALL PAINTING. AN IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF XVII CENTURY (Univ. of La Laguna, Tenerife - Spain) IN FERRARA. Prof. Dr. I. Vicovan Balboni Veronica, Bevilacqua Fabio, Casoli Antonella, Colombo Chiara, (Fac. of Orthodox Th eology, Iaşi - Ro- Realini Marco 20 mania) EXPRESSIONAL QUALITIES IN ANATOLIAN OTTOMAN MOSQUE ARCHITECTURE AS A PART OF INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Gulsen Disli 24 Dr. F. Bertelli CANVAS SUPPORT AS MATERIALIZATION OF RELIGIOUS-PEDAGOGIC (OPD, Florence - Italy) PROPAGANDA Dr. O. A. Cuzman Maltieira Rita, Calvo Ana, Cunha Joana 28 (ICVBC-CNR, Florence - Italy) WHEN DENDROCHRONOLOGY IS PROVING THE ART HISTORIAN RIGHT Arch. R. Manganelli Del Fà Olstad Tone Marie, Stornes Jan Michael Bartholin, Thomas Seip 32 (ICVBC-CNR, Florence - Italy) THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH- Prof. Dr. N. Melniciuc Puică CENTURY ROMANIAN ART: INFLUENCES, REPRESENTATION AND (Fac. of Orthodox Th eology, Iaşi - Ro- PRESERVATION IN IASI (I) mania) Cojocea Bogdan, Dominte G. Merişor, Onica Stelian, Sofragiu Petru, Dr. M. Realini Vraciu Marina, Dominte M. Irinel 36 (ICVBC-CNR, Florence - Italy) Dr. I. Rusu HISTORIC, THEOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES (EJST, Iaşi - Romania) Dr. P. Tiano (PAST AND PRESENT) 40 (ICVBC-CNR, Florence - Italy) “PASSION CLOCK”S IN NORWEGIAN CHURCHES. ICONOGRAPY AND CONDITION Andersen Elisabeth, Jernæs Nina Kjølsen 41 6th European Symposium on Religious Art, Restoration & Conservation Florence, Italy 9-11 June 2014 AN IMAGE WHATEVER THE COST? ABOUT THE KIND OF IMAGE, THAT DESERVES ALL THE COSTS TO PRESERVING IT IN THEODORE THE STUDITE’S WRITINGS. THE BEAUTY AND THE ANTICHRIST OF THE ICONODULES AND OF THE ICONOGRAPHERS Burlacu Magdalena 44 CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF ST JOHN’S CO-CATHEDRAL THE CHALLENGE OF RECONCILING PAST AND PRESENT USE Cynthia de Giorgio 47 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FATALISTIC BELIEFS IN THE PROPHETIC CUSTOMS OF ANCIENT SOCIETIES AND THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Lidija Kovacheva 51 PRESERVATION OF SACRAL MONUMENTS IN SLOVAKIA – HISTORY, PRESENT SITUATION AND PERSPECTIVES Magal Slavomír, Tinka Jozef 55 TRADITION AND ORIGINALITY IN THE ART OF ILLUSTRATING MANUSCRIPTS IN MOLDOVA. THE SCHOOL OF DRAGOMIRNA Elena Ardelean, Nicoleta Melniciuc Puica 58 THE MESSAGE OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION IN THE OLD PAINTINGS OF THE NORTHERN ROMANIA CHURCHES Melniciuc Puica Ilie 62 THE SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE: FROM DEFEAT TO VICTORY Mihaela Palade 66 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT 70 IDENTIFICATION OF BRONZE CORROSION PRODUCTS IN HISTORIC OBJECT Daniel Mareci, Iulian Rusu, Bogdan Istrate, Georgiana Bolat, Corneliu Munteanu, Romeu Chelariu 71 ANALYTICAL, DIAGNOSTIC AND INTERVENTION METHODOLOGIES 74 ETHICAL AND TECHNICAL CONCERNS DURING THE CONSERVATION PROCESS OF A RELIGIOUS BOOK: THE BOOK OF HOURS FROM THE LIBRARY OF PALÁCIO NACIONAL DE MAFRA Rita Araújo, Conceição Casanova, Maria João Melo, Ana Lemos 75 THE ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOLOGICAL AGENTS INVOLVED IN THE BIODETERIORATION OF OLD BOOKS FROM “DUMITRU STANILOAE” METROPOLITAN LIBRARY OF IAŞI N. Melniciuc Puica, S. Dunca, C. Tănase, E. Ardelean 79 POLYCHROMY OF THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE CLOISTER OF THE BURGOS CATHEDRAL María Dolores Robador, Fátima Arroyo Torralvo 83 THE BURGOS CATHEDRAL: CHARACTERISATION OF LIME-BASED MORTARS María Dolores Robador, Fátima Arroyo Torralvo 86 AN APPLICATION OF MULTICRITERIA DECISION METHODOLOGY TO RELIGIOUS HERITAGE CONSERVATION. THE CASE OF THE CATHEDRAL OF JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA (CÁDIZ) Fátima Arroyo Torralvo, Rosario Villegas Sanchez 89 PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF TWO MOLENS FROM TELCIU OLD WOODEN CHURCH, BISTRIŢA- NĂSĂUD COUNTY, ROMANIA Constantin Marutoiu, Ana Platon, Annamaria Baciu, Iren Kacso, Victor Constantin Marutoiu and Ioan Bratu 92 ARMENIAN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, A COLOURFUL TESTIMONY OF RELIGIOUS ART EXAMINED BY MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY TECHNIQUES Pietro Baraldi, Yeghis Keheyan, Gayane Eliazan, Andranik Mkrtichian, Stella Nunziante, Cecilia Baraldi 95 INVESTIGATION FOR RESTORATION ON SOME MURAL PAINTINGS FROM THE CRYPT OF THE ISCHIA CASTLE Pietro Baraldi, Teodoro Auricchio, Annalisa Pilato, Eleonora Cerra, Graziano Barbi, Caterina Merli, Cristiana Barbi, Alessandro Crivelli 98 TECHNICAL AND HISTORICAL EXAMINATION OF VIRGIN SURROUNDED BY FLOWERS PAINTING OF JAN VAN KESSELI Barbosa Carlota, Calvo Ana, Aguiar Maria 100 THE PULPIT OF ST.MARY CHURCH IN BERGEN (NORWAY): TRADING WITH VENICE TURPENTINE A. Lluveras-Tenorio, B. Wapler, I. Bonaduce, M.P. Colombini 103 LASER SCANNING FOR HISTORIC CHURCHES RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION: CHURCH OF SAN FILIPPO IN CAGLI Paolo Clini, Alberto Mazzacchera, Romina Nespeca 105 6th European Symposium on Religious Art, Restoration & Conservation Florence, Italy 9-11 June 2014 THE LAPIDAZIONE DI SANTO STEFANO BY GIORGIO VASARI: THE STUDY OF THE WOODEN SUPPORT’S DEFORMATIONS AS A CONTRIBUTION TO RESTORATION AND FUTURE CONSERVATION Cocchi Linda, Goli Giacomo, Mazzanti Paola, Marcon Bertrand, Uzielli Luca 109 MULTI ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE PAINTING TECHNIQUE IN THE CYPRUS ORTHODOX ICON TRADITION A. Lluveras-Tenorio, I. Degano, F. Parlanti, I. Bonaduce, K. Rasmussen, G. Lorenzetti, S. Legnaioli, V. Palleschi, Demosthenis Demosthenous, M.P. Colombini 113 COLORIMETRIC STUDY OF THE POST-PROCESSING EFFECT DUE TO ARTIFICIAL AGING AND GAMMA IRRADIATION OF COTTON Maria Geba, Dorina Rusu, Angelica Olaru 115 EGG-TEMPERA TECHNIQUES IN LATE 14TH CENTURY FLORENCE: NEW INVESTIGATIONS ON THE ANNUNCIATION AND SAINTS POLYPTYCH BY GIOVANNI DEL BIONDO (GALLERIA DELL’ACCADEMIA, FLORENCE) Bracci Susanna, Andreotti Alessia, Biondi Lucia, Colombini Maria Perla,Giannini Cristina, Parenti Daniela, Serefi dou Magdalini, Tapete Deodato 118 TECHNIQUE OF THE MURAL PAINTINGS OF THE HOSPITAL CHURCH IN HOREZU MONASTERY , ROMANIA Hidaka Midori, Hidaka Kenichiro, Miyata Junichi 122 GOTHIC CANVAS PAINTING: AN EXAMPLE OF TECHNOLOGY RESPONDING TO REQUIRMENTS OF THE LITURGY Janka Hradilová, David Hradil 126 THE NATIVITY BY AMBROGIO DELLA ROBBIA: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO THE CONSERVATION OF POLYCHROME TERRACOTTA SCULPTURES Bracci Susanna, Colombo Chiara, Conti Claudia, Magrini Donata, Realini Marco, Alessi Cecilia, Pierelli Louis Dante, Tonini Gabriella 130 MICRO-RAMAN ANALYSIS OF EARLY CHRISTIAN FRESCOES IN EGYPT Hussein H. Marey Mahmoud 134 THE GOLDEN LEGEND WALL-PAINTINGS CYCLE IN THE ORATORIO DELL’ANNUNZIATA