3. Application on a restoration site
As part of a restoration project at the Chapelle Sainte Madeleine in Solomiat, Ain, the condition report drawn up by Gilles Gautier, the restorer in charge of the project, seemed to indicate that the darkening of certain areas of a 19th-century mural was linked to the alteration of a lead pigment. A physico-chemical study of the paint layer confirmed this hypothesis, as the pure minium used had been altered into plattnerite. In collaboration with the people in charge of restoring the chapel, the equipment was installed to apply the treatment to the blackened areas (figure
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Bibliography
Websites
Center interdisciplinaire de conservation et restauration du patrimoine http://www.cicrp.fr (page consulted December 19, 2012)
Historical Monuments Research Laboratory http://www.lrmh.fr (page consulted on December 19, 2012)
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Standards and norms
- Principes pour l'analyse, la conservation et la restauration des structures du patrimoine architectural, adoptés par la 14e assemblée générale de l'ICOMOS à Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe - ICOMOS - 10-03
- Principes pour la préservation et la conservation/restauration des peintures murales, adoptés par la 14e Assemblée générale de l'ICOMOS à Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe - ICOMOS - 10-03
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