Ancient villages built in caves in Southern Italy are a unique architecture that preserved precious information about a lost reality. The present study describes a series of analyses performed in order to assess the conservation state of the wall paintings of San Giovanni’s church located in the countryside of Fasano, Apulia region. The mineralogic-petrographic and chemico-physical analyses performed on samples withdrawn from the interior wall paintings of the church, provided several useful information. It was possible to understand the nature of the original materials employed, such as pigments and binders media, and to achieve a punctual description of the stratigraphy. All this information were fundamental in order to understand the painting technique employed. The analytical characterization of the coloured plasters and the identification of the occurring biological degradation, depicted the conservation state of the wall paintings of the church. The data acquired were necessary to plan a proper conservative restoration intervention and also supplied information about the history and evolution of this original building.

I villaggi rupestri nati nel sud Italia hanno conservato nel tempo informazioni circa una realtà che costituisce un unicum nel territorio italiano. In questo lavoro sono descritte una serie di indagini preliminari ad un successivo intervento di pulitura e restauro conservativo degli affreschi presenti nella chiesa di San Giovanni, sita nel villaggio rupestre di Lama D’Antico che si trova nel territorio di Fasano (Brindisi). Il progetto realizzato ha consentito una preliminare caratterizzazione mineralogico-petrografica nonché chimico-fisica dei campioni prelevati dalle pareti interne affrescate della chiesa, assicurando così il collezionamento di informazioni sui materiali impiegati ed anche una complessiva valutazione dello stato di conservazione e dei fenomeni di degrado presenti al fine di fornire informazioni necessarie per il successivo intervento di restauro.

Analisi diagnostiche sullo stato di conservazione dei dipinti murali all’interno della chiesa rupestre di San Giovanni (Fasano, Brindisi) / Petrella, Andrea; Teodora, Basile; Giancarlo, Boghetich; Domenico, Calabrese; Caterina, Stea; Mario, Petrella. - In: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE. - ISSN 1121-9122. - 21:1-2(2012), pp. 55-62.

Analisi diagnostiche sullo stato di conservazione dei dipinti murali all’interno della chiesa rupestre di San Giovanni (Fasano, Brindisi)

PETRELLA, Andrea;
2012-01-01

Abstract

Ancient villages built in caves in Southern Italy are a unique architecture that preserved precious information about a lost reality. The present study describes a series of analyses performed in order to assess the conservation state of the wall paintings of San Giovanni’s church located in the countryside of Fasano, Apulia region. The mineralogic-petrographic and chemico-physical analyses performed on samples withdrawn from the interior wall paintings of the church, provided several useful information. It was possible to understand the nature of the original materials employed, such as pigments and binders media, and to achieve a punctual description of the stratigraphy. All this information were fundamental in order to understand the painting technique employed. The analytical characterization of the coloured plasters and the identification of the occurring biological degradation, depicted the conservation state of the wall paintings of the church. The data acquired were necessary to plan a proper conservative restoration intervention and also supplied information about the history and evolution of this original building.
2012
Analisi diagnostiche sullo stato di conservazione dei dipinti murali all’interno della chiesa rupestre di San Giovanni (Fasano, Brindisi) / Petrella, Andrea; Teodora, Basile; Giancarlo, Boghetich; Domenico, Calabrese; Caterina, Stea; Mario, Petrella. - In: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE. - ISSN 1121-9122. - 21:1-2(2012), pp. 55-62.
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