- Docente: Cesare Fiori
- Credits: 5
- SSD: ICAR/19
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Conservation and Enhancement of the Archaelogical Heritage (cod. 0400)
Learning outcomes
For a theoretical and practical knowledge of restoration methods applied to monuments, it is necessary to study in dept issues concerning: the conservation ethics of works of art and the historical evolution of the restoration interventions; the utilization of building materials and the intrinsic and environmental causes of their deterioration; the diffusion and transportation processes of fluids in porous materials; the guide-lines to choose products and their application techniques for cleaning, consolidating and protecting interventions on the materials, as well as control methods of the restoration works.
Course contents
- Conservation ethics and historical phases of the monument restoration
- The building and decorative stones and their deterioration
- Water in masonries and fluid movements in porous materials
- Consolidating and protective products for stone materials
- Comparative evaluation of consolidating and protective products
- Efficacy, safety and control of cleaning interventions
- Inorganic binders, mortars and plasters
- Organic binders and organic polymers for restoration
- Deterioration of consolidating and protective polymers
Readings/Bibliography
G.G.Amoroso, "Trattato di scienza della conservazione dei monumenti", Alinea Editrice, Firenze, 2002
C.Fiori, S.Lorusso, R.Pentrella, "Restauro, manutenzione, conservazione dei Beni Culturali: materiali, prodotti, tecniche", Pitagora Editrice, Bologna, 2003
Assessment methods
Oral exam on the subjects treated in the lessons
Office hours
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