Virtual Restoration 1. Paintings and mosaics

Abstract

This volume is the first of a series of books dedicated to individual areas of Virtual Restoration, which today represents one of the possible ways to know, preserve, safeguard and enhance artwork. In particular, this book deals with the restoration of pictorial and mosaic surfaces, through numerous case studies, all the topics related to restoration through the use of digital technologies: from the relief to the representation of decorated surfaces, the integration of gaps to virtual iconographic reconstruction up to the use of non-invasive diagnostic analysis. For each individual issue, solutions are compatible with the principles, rules and methods of “real” restoration, according to the axiom “physical restoration” to preserve and “virtual restoration” to enhance: an evolving methodology.