Infrared reflectography is an imaging technique used to visualize the underdrawings of ancient paintings; it relies on the fact that most pigment layers are quite transparent to infrared radiation in the spectral band between 0.8 lm and 2.5 lm. InGaAs sensor cameras are nowadays the most used devices to visualize the underdrawings but due to the small size of the detectors, these cameras are usually mounted on scanning systems to record high resolution reflectograms. This work describes a portable scanning system prototype based on a peculiar spherical scanning system built through a light weight and low cost motorized head. The motorized head was built with the purpose of allowing the refocusing adjustment needed to compensate the variable camera-painting distance during the rotation of the camera. The prototype has been tested first in laboratory and then in-situ for the Giotto panel ‘‘God the Father with Angels” with a 256 pixel per inch resolution. The system performance is comparable with that of other reflectographic devices with the advantage of extending the scanned area up to 1 m 1 m, with a 40 min scanning time. The present configuration can be easily modified to increase the resolution up to 560 pixels per inch or to extend the scanned area up to 2 m x 2m.

A new spherical scanning system for infrared reflectography of paintings / M. Gargano, F. Cavaliere, D. Viganò, A. Galli, N. Ludwig. - In: INFRARED PHYSICS & TECHNOLOGY. - ISSN 1350-4495. - 81(2017 Mar), pp. 128-136.

A new spherical scanning system for infrared reflectography of paintings

M. Gargano
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F. Cavaliere;D. Viganò;N. Ludwig
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2017

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Infrared reflectography is an imaging technique used to visualize the underdrawings of ancient paintings; it relies on the fact that most pigment layers are quite transparent to infrared radiation in the spectral band between 0.8 lm and 2.5 lm. InGaAs sensor cameras are nowadays the most used devices to visualize the underdrawings but due to the small size of the detectors, these cameras are usually mounted on scanning systems to record high resolution reflectograms. This work describes a portable scanning system prototype based on a peculiar spherical scanning system built through a light weight and low cost motorized head. The motorized head was built with the purpose of allowing the refocusing adjustment needed to compensate the variable camera-painting distance during the rotation of the camera. The prototype has been tested first in laboratory and then in-situ for the Giotto panel ‘‘God the Father with Angels” with a 256 pixel per inch resolution. The system performance is comparable with that of other reflectographic devices with the advantage of extending the scanned area up to 1 m 1 m, with a 40 min scanning time. The present configuration can be easily modified to increase the resolution up to 560 pixels per inch or to extend the scanned area up to 2 m x 2m.
Infrared reflectography; Spherical scanning; Infrared scanner; Underdrawings; InGaAs camera; Giotto underdrawing
Settore FIS/07 - Fisica Applicata(Beni Culturali, Ambientali, Biol.e Medicin)
mar-2017
23-dic-2016
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