Non-destructive analyses of the colour palette, gilding and varnish of an icon
Keywords:
X-ray spectrometry, Raman spectrometry, FT-IR, pigments, archaeometryAbstract
An icon from the region of Shumen was provided for analysis of the colour palette, the gilding and the varnish coating (supposed to be dammar or mastic) at the Centre for Archaeometry with a Laboratory for Conservation and Restoration (CALCR), University of Sofia. For this purpose selected segments on the surface were studied by non-destructive methods with instruments like: portable X-ray spectrometer Titan S1 Bruker, micro-x-ray fluorescent spectrometer Mistral M1 Bruker, infrared spectrometer with a reflection and absorption variant Alfa II Bruker, Raman spectrometer Bravo1 Bruker.
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