A large number of fragments of wall painting was found during the excavation of one room in the ruins of the Roman villa at Agios Donatos in Thesprotia, Greece. The villa was situated within a former Early Hellenistic fortress, overlooking the Kokytos Valley. The question was whether the more than 2500 fragments belonged to one […]
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Research project on plasters used for Pompeian wall painting, 2002-2005, 2010-2012. How did the Romans prepare the walls to make the paintings so extremely durable? Wall paintings exposed to weather and wind remain for centuries until they finally fade away or the preparation falls off. When studying the materials, there seemed to be differences related
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Pompeian Plasters. Buildings in Regiones I, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX. Rome 2012. ISSN 1825-7725. The Swedish Institute in Rome. Projects and Seminars 5:2. on-line: www.isvroma.it (publications)
”Conservation of Marble Fragments in the Portico”, in San Lorenzo in Lucina – The Transformation of a Roman Quarter, 357-362. O. Brandt (ed), Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Rom (ActaRom-4), Stockholm 2012.
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”Conservation at Archaeological sites – Labraunda”, in Proceedings, 5th International Congress on ”Science and Technology for the Safeguard of Cultural Heritage in the Mediterranean Basin, Istanbul 22-25 November 2011, vol 1, 222-229. Rome 2012.
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”Ancient Paints: Pigments and Binders”, in Focus on the Mediterranean 6.2011, 41-54. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm 2012.
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”Fragments of Wall Paintings. Material Investigation, Conservation and Presentation”, in San Lorenzo in Lucina – the Transformations of a Roman Quarter O. Brandt (ed), Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom (ActaRom-4), Stockholm 2012, 357-362.
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How do we handle and take care of excavated marble that remains in open air environment at an archaeological site? Swedish excavations began at Labraunda in 1948. No digging was carried out between 1960 and 1988, that is, until Professor Pontus Hellström at Uppsala University received the permission to initiate a new excavation period. In
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”Wax paint and Punic Wax – Research and Experiments”, in Encausto: storia, tecniche e ricerche/Encaustic: History, Technique and Research, a cura di Sergio Omarini, Stampa digitale, Nardini Editore, Firenze 2012, 24-33, 105-114. ISBN 9788840442167. The present publication is a collection of papers on topics presented at a seminar on ”Encaustic Painting – Myth and reality”,
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Palazzo Lancellotti ai Coronari is situated along Via dei Coronari in the center of Rome. The palace houses a large collection of antique works of art, most of which are statues. Many of these were found at excavations in and around Rome and their missing parts were reconstructed during the Baroque period and later. Statues
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