- Docente: Giuseppe Maria Bargossi
- Credits: 4
- SSD: GEO/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Sciences and Technologies for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (cod. 0483)
Course contents
Natural stone materials of ancient and modern employment (Granites, Marbles and Stones). Architectonic employment. Production and employment of ceramic materials (bricks and terracottas). Mortars and plasters characterization of historical buildings. Mosaics: mosaics tesseras and foundation mortars. The binders (plasters, limes and concretes). Decay morphologies and deterioration mechanisms. Sampling, cataloguing and elaboration of a diagnostic project. Mineralogical-petrographic study of natural and artificial stone materials through optical-petrographic instrumentation, X-ray diffractometry, X-ray fluorescence, scanning electron microscopy, microanalysis. Elaboration of experimental mineralogical and chemical data and their graphic representation.
Readings/Bibliography
Primavori P. (1999): Pianeta Pietra. Zusi Editore, Verona
Corbella E. (1996): Manuale dei Marmi Pietre Graniti. CD-ROM, ExNovo Edizioni, Milano
Borghini G. (1997): Marmi antichi. De Luca Editori d'Arte, Roma
Lazzarini L. e Tabasso M.L (1986): Il restauro della pietra. CEDAM, Padova
Raccomandazione Normal 1/88: Alterazioni Macroscopiche dei Materiali Lapidei: Lessico. I.C.R., Roma
Teaching methods
The course consists of frontal lessons and laboratory practice. The teaching activity will be developed in collaboration with Marta Marocchi of the Institut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris and with sector's specialists of the DSTGA Department of Bologna and will be supplemented with visits at monuments and ornamental rocks collections.
Assessment methods
The exam consists of written accounts supplemented with an oral test.
Teaching tools
LCD projector for Power Point presentations. Collections of samples, rocks' thin sections, aggregates, bricks and mortars. Transmitted Polarized Light Microscopes, photomicroscopes with digital camera, XRD, XRF and SEM-EDS.
Office hours
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