Virtual Restoration 1. Paintings and mosaics

This volume is the first of a series of booksdedicated to individual areas of VirtualRestoration, which today represents oneof the possible ways to know, preserve,safeguard and enhance artwork. In particular,this book deals with the restorationof pictorial and mosaic surfaces, throughnumerous case studies, all the topicsrelated to restoration through the use ofdigital technologies: from the relief to therepresentation of decorated surfaces, theintegration of gaps to virtual iconographicreconstruction up to the use of non-invasivediagnostic analysis. For each individualissue, solutions are compatiblewith the principles, rules and methods of“real” restoration, according to the axiom“physical restoration” to preserve and“virtual restoration” to enhance: an evolvingmethodology.