Neorenaissance/Neobaroque stained glass windows from Madrid: a characterisation study on some panels signed by the Maumejean Fréres company

Optical spectroscopy as a rapid and low-cost tool for the first-line analysis of glass artefacts: a step-by-step plan for Roman green glass

“…LA-ICP-spectrometry should be applied when the trace elements also need to be identified. Both techniques have proven their significant value and have contributed to breakthroughs in archaeometric research in the last 15 years (Brill, 1988;Freestone et al, 2002;Garcia-Heras et al, 2005;Hall and Yablonsky, 1997;Heck and Hoffmann, 2000;Jackson, 2005;Jackson et al, 2003;Mirti et al, 1995Mirti et al, , 1993Reade and Freestone, 2005;Rehren et al, 2005;Schalm et al, 2004Schalm et al, , 2007Schibille et al, 2008;Shortland, 2002Shortland, , 2005Shugar, 2000;Van der Linden et al, 2009). In spite of this, they have a few drawbacks.…”

“…Many other techniques can be found in literature such as isotope analysis to obtain information about provenances (Degryse and Schneider, 2008;Freestone et al, 2003;Henderson et al, 2005), X-ray diffraction to estimate the minimum temperature applied during the fabrication of the fragment (Garcia-Heras et al, 2005;Heck and Hoffmann, 2000;Jackson et al, 2003;Mirti et al, 1995) and XANES analysis to characterize the chemical states of the elements Lahlil et al, 2010;Nakai et al, 1997;Quartieri et al, 2005;Veiga and Figueiredo, 2006). These techniques too require high-tech equipment and are only applied to perform detailed studies on a limited number of samples.…”

“…An alternative is to use XRF (Falcone et al, 2002;Garcia-Heras et al, 2005;Hall and Yablonsky, 1997;Heck and Hoffmann, 2000;Henderson and Warren, 1981;Jackson et al, 2003;Shugar, 2000;Wolf et al, 2005). This relatively fast and easy-to-use and nondestructive analytical tool is able to measure every element in the periodic table which is heavier than lithium.…”

The stained glass window of the southern transept of St. Anthony's Basilica (Padova, Italy): study of glasses and grisaille paint layers

“…Stained glass windows are an important element in both religious and civil architecture, since they are multifunctional, e.g., mainly acting as filters for light and as iconographic supports [1,2]. Many studies have focused on well-known Medieval ensembles from cathedrals and other religious and civil buildings all over Europe [e.g., [3][4][5][6].…”

Application of sol-gel based sensors to environmental monitoring of Mauméjean stained glass windows housed in two different buildings at downtown Madrid

“…For the present acidity sensors the thin sensitive layer is obtained from a sol doped with an organic dye selected on generated [6,7,8,9], while much less attention has been paid to preventive conservation issues, especially those concerned with evaluation and control of environmental conditions to which stained glass windows are subjected [10].…”