Thursday, October 13, 2011

Fw: H-ASIA: Tibetan thangka conservation @ AATA Online (Conservation at the Getty) Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale 'Giuseppe Tucci' Rome

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> H-ASIA
> October 13, 2011
>
> Resource: Tibetan thangka conservation @ AATA Online (Conservation at the
> Getty) Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale 'Giuseppe Tucci' in Rome
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> Ed. note: Our H-ASIA colleague Dr Massimiliano A. Polichetti sent in a
> short post calling attention to the chapters of a recent publication
> relating to non-invasive analyses on the collection of Tibetan tangkas
> from the Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale 'Giuseppe Tucci' in Rome.
> For convenience, I have copied the eleven entries from the AATA Online
> site. Access to that site is free, but requires registration. FFC
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> From: m.a.polichetti <indotibetanstudies@gmail.com>
>
> For abstracts of each chapter in:
>
> Visibilia invisibilium: non-invasive analyses on Tibetan paintings from
> the Tucci expeditions.
> Book. Orientalis (2011), [English]. 308 p. : 373 ills. (57 color) 33
> tables, 169 refs. [ISBN 978-88-905666-0-8].
>
> search for "visibilia invisibilium" in the title field
>
> http://aata.getty.edu/NPS/
>
> best regards
>
> m.a.p.
>
> -----------------------------
> Dr Massimiliano A. Polichetti
> Civil Servant - Italian Ministry for Culture
> (Director Historian of Oriental Art
> for India, Tibet and Nepal)
>
> Office:
> Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale 'Giuseppe Tucci'
> Via Merulana, 248 - 00185 Rome (Italy)
> tel. +390646974861; fax +390646974837
> www.museorientale.beniculturali.it
> http://polichetti.blogspot.com
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Details of titles:
>
> Laurenzi Tabasso, Marisa; Polichetti, Massimiliano; and Seccaroni,
> Claudio.
>
> Visibilia invisibilium: non-invasive analyses on Tibetan paintings from
> the Tucci expeditions.
> Book. Orientalis (2011), [English]. 308 p. : 373 ills. (57 color) 33
> tables, 169 refs. [ISBN 978-88-905666-0-8].
>
> Title, Author, Year Pub
> 1 Visibilia invisibilium: non-invasive analyses on Tibetan paintings
> from the Tucci expeditions Laurenzi Tabasso, Marisa 2011
> Thangkas are religious paintings executed on a canvas support that is
> primed on both sides. In terms of fabrication procedures, the extensive
> collection of thangkas in the Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale "Giuseppe
> Tucci" (MNAO) in Rome had never been the subject of study. With the help
> of different...
>
> 2 Analytical techniques utilized Bellucci, Roberto 2011
> Chapter 3 presents the basic principles of the different nondestructive
> analytical techniques used for the study of 35 thangkas and four fragments
> of Tibetan wall paintings from the Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale
> "Giuseppe Tucci" in Rome. The equipment used is listed as well.
>
> 3 Radiographic investigations Eclisse, Maggiorino 2011
> Chapter four recounts the investigation by x-radiography of 13 Tibetan
> thangkas from the Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale "Giuseppe Tucci" in
> Rome. The thread counts of the canvas supports are compared with others
> documented in bibliographic and scientific sources. Through the study of
> the radio-opacities,...
>
> 4 Underdrawing Bellucci, Roberto 2011
> Chapter five recounts the investigation by IR reflectography (by both
> scanner and CCD camera) of 27 Tibetan thangkas and three fragments of
> Tibetan wall paintings from the Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale "Giuseppe
> Tucci" in Rome. A relatively detailed preparatory drawing, reference and
> iconometric...
>
> 5 Inscriptions concealed by frames or by pictorial layers Dhondup,
> Nyima 2011
> Chapter six recounts the restoration investigation of the thangkas from
> the Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale "Giuseppe Tucci" in Rome, which made
> it possible to detect and decipher writings not visible when the paintings
> were shown in the collection. Generally, these scripts on the reverse or
> under...
>
> 6 Colour notations Bellucci, Roberto 2011
> Chapter seven addresses IR reflectography by scanner and CCD camera of
> 16 thangkas from the Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale "Giuseppe Tucci" in
> Rome, revealing alphabetic notations used to indicate the color (not the
> pigment) that the painter had to use. Sometimes a notation consists of one
> or more...
>
> 7 X-ray fluorescence analysis Moioli, Pietro 2011
> Chapter eight recounts the nondestructive investigation by x-ray
> fluorescence analysis (XRF) of 24 Tibetan thangkas and one fragment of a
> Tibetan wall painting from the Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale "Giuseppe
> Tucci" in Rome in order to collect a wide spectrum of information
> concerning the pigments....
>
> 8 Colour measurements Borrelli, Ernesto 2011
> Chapter nine reports the nondestructive investigation of 12 Tibetan
> thangkas from the Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale "Giuseppe Tucci" in
> Rome using reflectance spectrophotometry. The results are given as CIE
> chromatic coordinates and Helmoltz coordinates for each measured point of
> each thangka. The...
>
> 9 Thangka textile frames: a repertory from the fifteenth to seventeenth
> centuries Ugo Vicari, Vittorio 2011
> The restoration of the Tibetan thangkas from the Museo Nazionale d'Arte
> Orientale "Giuseppe Tucci" in Rome made possible a complete and detailed
> identification of fabrics used for the textile frames after the
> conservation treatments were concluded. Chapter 10 recounts this study to
> gain information...
>
> 10 Conservation of the textile frames on the thangkas in the Tucci
> Collection Schoenholzer-Nichols, Thessy 2011
> Chapter 11 focuses on the restoration of the textile frames of the
> Tibetan thangkas from the Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale "Giuseppe
> Tucci" in Rome, which made it possible to investigate in depth the
> materials and techniques for mounting such religious paintings. Moreover,
> conservation treatments,...
>
>
> 11 Technical-analytical entries Bellucci, Roberto 2011
> Chapter 12 reports the results from nondestructive investigations of 35
> thangkas and four fragments of Tibetan wall paintings from the Museo
> Nazionale d'Arte Orientale "Giuseppe Tucci" in Rome in detail. Imaging
> techniques of investigation were employed, including radiography and IR
> reflectography...
> FFC
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