Focus and Scope
The main topics covered by this journal are:
- Historical-artistic knowledge of cultural heritage (author, artistic movement, artistic age, artistic techniques, educational society and characteristics of its culture, socioeconomic context, the people ordering and financing the masterpieces and target audience);
- Document and information research;
- Book production in its historical context;
- Use of appropriate methodologies and analytical techniques for the characterizationof historical masterpieces that are part of the cultural heritage and for the evaluationof the preservation state;
- Environmental monitoring: assessment of atmospheric pollution and correlated decayof monuments and historical-artistic setting;
- Micro and macroclimatic monitoring in confined spaces (museums, libraries, archives, churches...);
- Artistic diagnosis;
- Experiences in cultural heritage conservation;
- Problems in the operating process of restoration;
- Valuation of suitability of products used for restoration, conservation, and maintenance of cultural heritage;
- Computer science and cultural heritage: methods for data elaboration and cataloguing;
- Virtual revising of written texts and illustrated books;
- Study and enhance the value of archives and book documents;
- Setting of historical architectures;
- Conservation, cataloguing and elaboration (virtual or not) of photographs;
- Others (education, safeguard and conservation...)
