A dew point signaller for conservation of works of art

✍ Scribed by Dario Camuffo; Sergio Valcher

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 308 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-6369
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00395627

✦ Synopsis

Abstraet. All works of art, from paintings, frescoes, sculptures, to monuments and buildings, are affected by diurnal and seasonal variations of the local microclimate, which induce interactions with the environ mental atmosphere. Heat and vapour exchanges cause fluxes of heat and mass between the surface and the atmosphere, and may favour the agressivity of environmental pollutants. Condensation-evaporation cycles are recognized as being very important processes which adversely affect the life-time of the work of art. The need to contro~ the microcIirnate or to stop co adensation processes has been resoIved by means cfa dew-point sigt~aller especially desJgaed to overcome this problem, This paper discusses the characteristics of this device as well as the environmental philosophy which should be followed when conserving works of art.