Mid-infrared thermal imaging for an effective mapping of surface materials and sub-surface detachments in mural paintings: integration of thermography and thermal quasi-reflectography

C. Daffara; S. Parisotto; P. I. Mariotti

doi:10.1117/12.2184836

30 June 2015 Mid-infrared thermal imaging for an effective mapping of surface materials and sub-surface detachments in mural paintings: integration of thermography and thermal quasi-reflectography

C. Daffara, S. Parisotto, P. I. Mariotti

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Proceedings Volume 9527, Optics for Arts, Architecture, and Archaeology V; 95270I (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2184836
Event: SPIE Optical Metrology, 2015, Munich, Germany

Abstract

Cultural Heritage is discovering how precious is thermal analysis as a tool to improve the restoration, thanks to its ability to inspect hidden details. In this work a novel dual mode imaging approach, based on the integration of thermography and thermal quasi-reflectography (TQR) in the mid-IR is demonstrated for an effective mapping of surface materials and of sub-surface detachments in mural painting. The tool was validated through a unique application: the “Monocromo” by Leonardo da Vinci in Italy. The dual mode acquisition provided two spatially aligned dataset: the TQR image and the thermal sequence. Main steps of the workflow included: 1) TQR analysis to map surface features and 2) to estimate the emissivity; 3) projection of the TQR frame on reference orthophoto and TQR mosaicking; 4) thermography analysis to map detachments; 5) use TQR to solve spatial referencing and mosaicking for the thermal-processed frames. Referencing of thermal images in the visible is a difficult aspect of the thermography technique that the dual mode approach allows to solve in effective way. We finally obtained the TQR and the thermal maps spatially referenced to the mural painting, thus providing the restorer a valuable tool for the restoration of the detachments.

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C. Daffara, S. Parisotto, and P. I. Mariotti "Mid-infrared thermal imaging for an effective mapping of surface materials and sub-surface detachments in mural paintings: integration of thermography and thermal quasi-reflectography", Proc. SPIE 9527, Optics for Arts, Architecture, and Archaeology V, 95270I (30 June 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2184836

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