Laser cleaning of terracotta decorations of the portal of Palos of the Cathedral of Seville

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• 作者：Mohamed Oujja ; Esther Rebollar ; Marta Castillejo ; Concepció ; n Domingo ; Concepció ; n Cirujano and Fernando Guerra-Librero
• 关键词：Laser cleaning ; Terracotta ; Colorimetry ; Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy ; Raman microscopy
• 刊名：Journal of Cultural Heritage
• 出版年：2005
• 出版时间：December 2005
• 年：2005
• 卷：6
• 期：4
• 页码：321-327
• 全文大小：617 K

文摘

Laser cleaning has been used to restore the soiled terracotta statues and decorations of the tympanum of the portal of Palos of the Cathedral of Seville in Spain. A simultaneous laboratory study performed on a representative sample helped to identify the optimum laser conditions to remove the dark soiling layer produced by air pollution. It was found that irradiation at 1064 nm with a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser was more effective than the harmonic wavelengths of 532 or 266 nm. LIBS and Raman microscopy gave information on the composition of terracotta and identified the presence of a protective layer made of gypsum and calcite. As detected by Raman spectroscopy, laser irradiation caused the elimination of the carbon component of the soiling layer and the appearance of an anhydrite component in the laser irradiated gypsum layer applied over the terracotta substrate for protective purposes. Local heating of the surface caused by laser irradiation at 1064 nm, the laser wavelength used for restoration of the portal, might be responsible for a process of partial dehydration of gypsum into anhydrite.