Two Byzantine Albanian icons: A non-destructive archaeometric study

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 343-355

  Franceschi, Chiara M ^a   Franceschi, Enrico ^a   Nole, Dion ^a   Vassallo, Stefano ^b   Glozheni, Lorenc ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Paper Restorer   (Italy)

^c National Museum of Medieval Art   (Albania)

Author keywords

Albanian icons; Byzantine icons; Reflectance spectrophotometry; UV fluorescence; X ray fluorescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873852085     PISSN: 18669557     EISSN: 18669565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-011-0073-0     Document Type: Article

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