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- Title
New Insights into the Medieval Hispano-Muslim Panel Painting: The Alfarje Found in a Balearic Casal (Spain).
- Authors
Álvarez-Romero, Carla; García-Bueno, Ana; López-Martínez, Teresa; Turatti-Guerrero, Rafael; Montoya, Noemí; Doménech-Carbó, María Teresa
- Abstract
Hispano-Muslim culture flourished during the Middle Ages in the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands. During the restoration of a Balearic nobiliary building (casal), several panels with polychrome decoration on the back side were found. They were part of an old Muslim wooden ceiling (alfarje). A multi-technique strategy including optical microscopy, infrared and μRaman spectroscopies, field emission scanning electron microscopy-X-ray microanalysis (FESEM-EDX), focused ion beam (FIB-FESEM-EDX), atomic force microscopy nanoindentation (AFM-NI), and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) has been applied in the analysis of these panel paintings and has provided morphological and compositional data that have led to the identification of the materials and artistic technique as well as the alteration mechanisms due to the natural aging and the adverse conditions of conservation. As a novelty, this study has confirmed the use of indigo as a blue pigment, an unusual material in Hispano-Muslim panel painting. Apart from the notable change in the visual appearance observed in the paintings, the study has also confirmed a change in the mechanical resistance in the paint layers. These changes have been induced by the combination of the chemical and microbiological alteration mechanisms identified.
- Subjects
BALEARIC Islands (Spain); IBERIAN Peninsula; SPAIN; PANEL painting; ION beams; ELECTRON field emission; GAS chromatography/Mass spectrometry (GC-MS); ATOMIC force microscopy; FOCUSED ion beams; MICROSCOPY
- Publication
Molecules, 2023, Vol 28, Issue 3, p1235
- ISSN
1420-3049
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/molecules28031235