The green stains alter the appearance of the monument, and therefore stone conservators and conservation scientists are constantly working with the cleaning of stone monuments as well as the development of new efficient cleaning methods [2].
But for John Larson, head of statue conservation at the Merseyside gallery in Liverpool, it is all in a day's work.Mr Larson specialises in the laser cleaning of statues, monuments and other works of art.
Aside from possible reductions to the budgets of other areas of government, like Culture Ministry projects including the regular cleaning of historic monuments, it remains to be seen where other, more painful cuts may come.
The laboratory conditions represent ambient temperature in the summer months in the Nordic countries, the normal period for cleaning of outdoor stone monuments.
"Somehow they are sort of monuments".
BRUSSELS is full of monuments to the "builders of Europe".
A number of monuments honour the dead.
Dozens of monuments were destroyed throughout Poland.
The diversity of monuments falling within the potbelly sculptural tradition and the individuality of the monuments support the argument that the monuments represent individual rulers.
The first part, visible last summer when the monument was encased in scaffolding, included the re-injection of mortar in the monument base and the cleaning of the exterior.
"Cleaning, of course," said the woman, Paulina Shekhet.
