Mass Spectrometric and Synchrotron Radiation based techniques for the identification and distribution of painting materials in samples from paints of Josep Maria Sert

Chemistry Central Journal

Anna Lluveras-Tenorio³  Alessia Andreotti¹  Ilaria Bonaduce¹  Sarah Boularand³  Marine Cotte²  Josep Roqué⁴  Maria Perla Colombini¹  Marius Vendrell-Saz³ 

[1] Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, University of Pisa, Via Risorgimento 35, 56126, Pisa, Italy

[2] Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France, CNRS UMR171, Palais du Louvre, Porte des Lions, 14 Quai François Mitterrand, F-75001, Paris, France

[3] Departament de Cristal.lografia, Mineralogia I Dipòsits Minerals, University of Barcelona, C/Marti i Franquès S/N, 08015, Barcelona, Spain

[4] Science Division, Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxon, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom

关键词: Paintings;    XRD;    Synchrotron radiation;    FTIR;    Mapping;    GC/MS;   

Others  :  788149
DOI  :  10.1186/1752-153X-6-45

 received in 2012-02-02, accepted in 2012-04-27,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Establishing the distribution of materials in paintings and that of their degradation products by imaging techniques is fundamental to understand the painting technique and can improve our knowledge on the conservation status of the painting. The combined use of chromatographic-mass spectrometric techniques, such as GC/MS or Py/GC/MS, and the chemical mapping of functional groups by imaging SR FTIR in transmission mode on thin sections and SR XRD line scans will be presented as a suitable approach to have a detailed characterisation of the materials in a paint sample, assuring their localisation in the sample build-up. This analytical approach has been used to study samples from Catalan paintings by Josep Maria Sert y Badía (20^th century), a muralist achieving international recognition whose canvases adorned international buildings.

Results

The pigments used by the painter as well as the organic materials used as binders and varnishes could be identified by means of conventional techniques. The distribution of these materials by means of Synchrotron Radiation based techniques allowed to establish the mixtures used by the painter depending on the purpose.

Conclusions

Results show the suitability of the combined use of SR μFTIR and SR μXRD mapping and conventional techniques to unequivocally identify all the materials present in the sample and their localization in the sample build-up. This kind of approach becomes indispensable to solve the challenge of micro heterogeneous samples. The complementary interpretation of the data obtained with all the different techniques allowed the characterization of both organic and inorganic materials in the samples layer by layer as well as to establish the painting techniques used by Sert in the works-of-art under study.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Lluveras-Tenorio et al.; licensee Chemistry Central Ltd.

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