MATERIAL ANALYSIS

Material analysis is an integral part of the proprietary set of protocols UltimateDocumentation^© (UD^©) as it has been developed by ArtGnomon.

The most prominent analytical methods and novel techniques available, most of them available for on-site investigation, can deliver a huge volume of valid information concerning the detection and characterisation of the materials employed by the artist, the methods of manufacture, the dating and the provenance of the artwork. In this way, a thorough understanding of the degradation and decay processes of the materials is achieved and the in-depth condition of the object is analysed.

The range of techniques available allow the microscopic, molecular, elemental and chemical characterisation of the materials, thus leading -along with the rest of the methods employed by ArtGnomon- to the formation of the complete profile of each unique object of art.