Estudio y análisis de los procesos de alteración por agentes microbiológicos en obras pictóricas sobre lienzo expuestas en claustros de conventos y monasterios del centro histórico de Quito, Ecuador
- Fernando Poyatos Jiménez
- Rosa Morales Cabrera
- Lourdes Cevallos Paredes
- Carla Freile
- Fátima Morales
Verlag: Ministerio de Cultura
Datum der Publikation: 2017
Titel des Bandes: La Ciencia y el Arte VI. Ciencias experimentales y conservación del patrimonio
Ausgabe: 6
Seiten: 292-303
Art: Buch-Kapitel
Zusammenfassung
The historic center of Quito, Ecuador, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1978. In worship places, such as cloisters of convents and monasteries, you can find artwork that is exposed in environments where the microbiological action could develop alteration processes in the artistic materials. The pieces of art of the study belong to the Convents and Monasteries of San Francisco, Santo Domingo and Santa Clara. For this research, we achieved an environmental monitoring and we studied the microbiological agents that appear in the artwork by traditional techniques of microbial identification. In order to analyze the preventive conservation treatments, we carried out experimental studies with artistic materials of reference. These results could improve the setup of protocols for the control of materials against the microbiological action, as well as the arrangement of preventive conservation proposals, in order to be employed in the cultural heritage of Quito.