 Historical panel paintings - icons

International Colloquium - "Virtual Experiments for Wooden Artwork – VirtEx" -  November-5-2021

Proceedings

The VirtEx project was successfully completed in December. The proceedings of our final colloquium on 5.11.2021 are printed.

Based on nine papers by leading research teams, the book offers an up-to-date insight into the state of the art in engineering research in the field of preventive conservation. It is aimed at natural scientists and engineers as well as conservators and art historians and all those who feel responsible for the preservation of cultural heritage. The design concept placed great importance on meeting the high-level scientific content with a very high aesthetic standard. In addition to the illustrations in the papers, numerous other illustrative photos provide insight into the environment of everyday research. The book in A4 format has 152 pages with colour illustrations throughout.

The book itself is free, but there is a charge of €20.00 per book for packaging and shipping.
You can order the conference proceedings via the e-mail address virtex@tu-dresden.de. You will receive an invoice with the book.

Title: VIRTEX - Virtual Experiments for Wooden Artwork
Editors: Michael Kaliske, Daniel Konopka, Oliver Tietze, Christoph Herm
Institute for Structural Analysis Technische Universität Dresden

Content:

• Monitoring micro-changes in wooden artworks to support strategies for indoor climate management, Michał Łukomski, Emma Gaia Ziraldo, Annelies Cosaert, Ashley Amanda Freeman, Vincent Laudato Beltran, Joel Taylor
• Preservation of wooden heritage objects – gaps in knowledge impairing development of optimal environmental specifications, Łukasz Bratasz, Magdalena Soboń
• Inside the Icon: Experimental and numerical analysis of climate impacts on the damage potential of panel paintings, Michael Kaliske, Daniel Konpka
• Integration of experimental and numerical methods to study the mechanical risk conditions for the conservation of unique art pieces: the case of the Mona Lisa, Lorenzo Riparbelli, Paolo Dionisi Vici, Luca Uzielli, Joseph Gril
• Mechanical experiments to predict creep in large wooden objects in cultural heritage: Experiences from the Vasa ship, Reza Afshar, E. Kristopher Gamstedt
• Experimental-numerical investigation of climate-induced damage in historical cabinet door panels, Rianne. A. Luimes, Akke S.J. Suiker, A.J.M. Jorissen, P.H.J.C. van Duin, H.L. Schellen
• Predicting craquelure and delamination mechanisms in canvas and panel paintings, Emanuela Bosco, Akke S.J. Suiker, Norman A. Fleck
• Problems and peculiarities of thin panel paintings. The effects of protections on the back side, Ottaviano Allegretti, Paolo Dionisi-Vici
• A new Risk assessment tool which assesses the climate-induced mechanical stress and its strain energy density on Pine circular elements: preliminary investigation in view of the experimental and numerical modeling validation, America Califano, Pietro Foti, Marco Baiesi, Filippo Berto, Chiara Bertolin

International Colloquium - "Icon Restoration and Engineering Approaches" -  November-6-2020

Project

Virtual Experiments for Artworks – VirtEx

Limitation of Climate Induced Changes on Artwork in Situ by Means of Numerical Simulation

Research topics

• Development of a hygro-mechanical coupled phasefield model to simulate damage of wooden structures within FE-analysis
• Modelling and numerical simulation of wooden structures and cultural heritage objects
• numerical analysis of the influence of real and worst climate scenarios on the structural response and on the damage of an icon panel painting and evaluation of the damage potential
• Validation of the numerical models by long-term experiments on detailed copies and dummies
• Art technological examinations on icons
• Determination of material parameters of the used materials

Founded by

Saxon State Ministry of Science, Culture and Tourism.

This project is co-financed with tax revenues on the basis of the budget decided by the members of the Saxon state parliament.

In collaboration with

Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden www.hfbk-dresden.de

Institut für Holztechnologie Dresden gemeinnützige GmbH www.ihd-dresden.de

Andrej Rubljev – Museum für Alte Russische Kultur und Kunst Moskau www.rublev-museum.ru

Moskauer Staatliche Akademie der Künste benannt nach V. I. Surikov  surikov-vuz.com

Institut für Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung der TU-Dresden www.tu-dresden.de/bu/umwelt/geo/ipf

Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Sachsen

Institut für Diagnostik und Denkmalpflege an Denkmalen in Sachsen und Sachsen-Anhalt e.V.

Russische Gedächtniskirche Leipzig

Kunstretter e.V.