This paper presents the characterization of different tools employed in the construction of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence; they are part of the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore collection and are currently exhibited in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo. The analyzed objects are turnbuckles, pulleys, three-legged lewises, and pincers; indeed, despite their uniqueness and their importance from the historical point of view, this study is the first one that investigates their alloys composition. Actually, this information can be of great interest for curators to find the best conservation strategies and to have new insights on the production techniques typical of the Renaissance. The study was performed using X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) in order to identify the materials constituting the objects. Then, XRF spectra were analyzed using chemometric techniques, namely Principal Components Analysis (PCA), in order to investigate possible similarities among different alloys and thus provide new indications to help collocating these tools in a specific historical period.

Characterization of the Santa Maria del Fiore Cupola construction tools using X-ray fluorescence / ES SEBAR, Leila; Iannucci, Leonardo; Grassini, Sabrina; Angelini, EMMA PAOLA MARIA VIRGINIA; Parvis, Marco; Bernardoni, Andrea; Neuwahl, Alexander; Filardi, Rita. - In: ACTA IMEKO. - ISSN 2221-870X. - STAMPA. - 11:1(2022), pp. 1-7. [10.21014/acta_imeko.v11i1.1101]

Characterization of the Santa Maria del Fiore Cupola construction tools using X-ray fluorescence

Leila Es Sebar;Leonardo Iannucci;Sabrina Grassini;Emma Angelini;Marco Parvis;
2022

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This paper presents the characterization of different tools employed in the construction of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence; they are part of the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore collection and are currently exhibited in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo. The analyzed objects are turnbuckles, pulleys, three-legged lewises, and pincers; indeed, despite their uniqueness and their importance from the historical point of view, this study is the first one that investigates their alloys composition. Actually, this information can be of great interest for curators to find the best conservation strategies and to have new insights on the production techniques typical of the Renaissance. The study was performed using X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) in order to identify the materials constituting the objects. Then, XRF spectra were analyzed using chemometric techniques, namely Principal Components Analysis (PCA), in order to investigate possible similarities among different alloys and thus provide new indications to help collocating these tools in a specific historical period.
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