4. The gilding
Oil gilding
Water gilding
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5. Plaster decoration
Serial decoration
Le parti decorate a missione sono caratterizzate
da una stesura piuttosto spessa che si suppone
essere di gommalacca o altra resina di origine
naturale.
Tale resina, da un'osservazione al microscopio,
sembra aver inglobato, in parte, al suo interno
la foglia d'oro. Questo potrebbe essere dovuto
ad una stesura prematura della foglia stessa.
Metallic structure
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6. Val Casotto
The Charterhouse of Casotto
Foundation
Acquisition and destination of use
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7. The Universal Expositions
Social phenomenon
the bourgeoisie
the artists
Factories
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8. Savoy ecleticism
Decorative patterns at the court of King
Vittorio Emanuele II
The living room of the Queen of the Castle of
Moncalieri
Domenico Ferri, Regio decorator
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10. Gilding:
Xilofagi Attack
Delamination of the gold leaf
from the support
from the preparation layer
Lacunae of the plaster decoration
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11. Corrosion of the metal structure
Rebuildable lacunae
Unrebuildable lacunae
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12. Integrative choice
Reproduction through the
original calque
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14. OPTICAL MICROSCOPE
UV
Observation with an optical microscope
of the polished cross-section
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15. SEM -EDS
Presence of three layers
Calcium carbonate
bolus
gilding
Printed pastes
Calcium carbonate
Organic component
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16. XR
Metallic structure
Fractures of the stuccoes
Different levels of radiopacity
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17. UV
Presence of orange
fluorescent
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18. Nineteenth-century treaties
3.POLIORAMA PITTORESCO
Napoli, 1836
Paste stampate
5 shares of beautiful bone glue
and 1 part of gelatin,
It makes a pasta with ...
Spain's white and glue.
The examined recipes
1.BUILDERS POCKET MANUAL
London, 1837
Composition.
2 shares of the best chalk (CaCO3)
1 part glue
½ part of linseed oil
mixed together
2.ENCICLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
New York, 1833
Composition ornaments
Fine glue,
white resin and
linseed oil, boiled together with
addition of sieved gypsum.
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19. Reproduction of the pastes
calque from the original
silicone matrix
positive plaster
silicone matrix
positive in silicone
matrix polyester resin
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20. Pastes reproduction
Mixtures
85 g of Ca carbonate
30 g of bone glue
10 g of linseed oil
5 g of colophony
60 g of Ca carbonate
30 g of bone glue
15 g of linseed oil
60 g of Ca carbonate
25 g of bone glue
5 g fish glue
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21. Bismuth nitrate XR
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