Open AccessA provenance study on the lapis lazuli collection from the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences in Turin
Author(s) -
Laura Guidorzi,
Alessandro Re,
D. Angelici,
Quentin Lemasson,
Claire Pacheco,
Laurent Pichon,
Brice Moignard,
Lorenzo Gallo,
Emanuele Costa,
Roberto Cossio,
A. Lo Giudice
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/2204/1/012092
Subject(s) - provenance , art , natural (archaeology) , archaeology , geography , geology , paleontology
Studies on the provenance of raw material used in the production of lapis lazuli artifacts can be particularly useful also in confirming or discarding the attributions given in past times by museum curators. In this work, a case study on five pieces belonging to the 19 th century “Savoy Collection” of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences in Turin is presented. The analysis allowed to assess the correctness of a previous Chilean attribution and to assign a provenance for the whole set of samples.