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Alberto Burri, a 20th-century Italian painter, had a fondness for burned plastics—a "nightmare for conservators", says Giacomo Chiari, chief scientist at the Getty.What does the explosion of new paints mean for conservation, cleaning and display?
The library said the grant would help in the conservation, cleaning and repair of items like Hemingway's first draft of "The Sun Also Rises" (then called "Fiesta"); family scrapbooks, including one compiled by a grandfather that chronicles Hemingway's life from his birth in 1899 through his teens; and a ring made from shrapnel from his World War I injuries.
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This museum holds about 80,000 works, most donated by missionaries from every continent but Europe, and was shut for three years for the conservation and cleaning of each object -- items like Australian totem poles and American Indian statues.
The best "conservation material-cleaning agent" pairs and their reversible rates were obtained, which were "ParaloidB72---P-xylene + ethyl acetate---80acetate---80acetate---80acetate---80%thyl acrylic---P-xylene---44c---P-xylene---44%", "silicone---P-xylene + 1-Pentanol---55%".
The research shows that the long-term effect of different phases of the conservation activity (from cleaning to esthetic and/or conservative treatments) can cause marble discoloration.
The aim of the research was the definition of a general conservation protocol for cleaning, protection and for the maintenance of all the statues of the series.
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].
Some conservators used increasingly aggressive approaches to cleaning and conservation, favoring overpainting and other interventionist methods.
From an aesthetic point of view, the discolouration is undesirable and stone conservators and conservation scientists have therefore worked for several decades with various cleaning methods in attempts to remove rust stains from marble and calcareous stone materials [3, 10 12].
An extensive program of cleaning and conservation of the work was finished in March.
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