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Petrographic Scientific Consulting

Most Significant Scientific Publications by Dr. Rebecca Piovesan:

  • Coletti, C., Antonelli, F., Germinario, L., Maritan, L., Piovesan, R., Tesser, E., & Mazzoli, C. (2025). Investigating stone materials from some European cultural heritage sites for predicting future decay. Rendiconti Lincei. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-024-01298-x

  • Holakooei, P., Rafiei-Alavi, B., Shojaee-Esfahani, A., Jebreili, Y., Bahadori, S., Piovesan, R., & Maritan, L. (2024). A provenance study on the ceramics excavated at the Varzaneh Plain, central Iran. Heritage Science, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-024-01532-7

  • Antonelli, F., Piovesan, R., Amoretti, V., Tesser, E., Maritan, L., & Osanna, M. (2024). The stone tesserae of the mosaics in the “Domus di Orione” at Pompeii: where do they come from? An archaeometric study. Rendiconti Lincei, 35(4), 819–836. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-024-01276-3

  • Antonelli, F., Piovesan, R., Tesser, E., Tosato, M., & Sorbo, E. (2024). Original or post-war paintings? The fixed wooden scenery of the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza: a guided multidisciplinary approach based on scientific analyses and HBIM. Heritage Science, 12(1), 205. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-024-01307-0 

  • Pagano, S., Germinario, C., de Bonis, A., Mercurio, M., de Simone, G. F., Piovesan, R., d’Aniello, F., & Grifa, C. (2024). Living in the shadow of Vesuvius: Analysis of the wall paintings of Pollena Trocchia’s Roman buildings across historical eruptions. Construction and Building Materials, 411, 134441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2023.134441

  • Piovesan, R., Tesser, E., Bruschi, G., Faccio, P., & Antonelli, F. (2024). Giuseppe Torres’s ‘Byzantine House’ in Venice: Building Materials and Deterioration Products of an Early 1900s Home in the Lagoon Environment. Studies in Conservation, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2023.2290851 

  • Piovesan, R.; Tesser, E.; Maritan, L.; Zaccariello, G.; Mazzoli, C.; Antonelli, F. (2023) Mapping of Stones and Their Deterioration Forms: The Clock Tower, Venice (Italy). Heritage Science, 11, 108. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-023-00909-4  

  • Piovesan, R., Mazzoli, C., Maritan, L. (2023) Production Recipes of Mortar-Based Materials from Ancient Pompeii by Quantitative Image Analysis Approach: The Microstratigraphy of Plasters in the Temple of Venus. Journal of Cultural Heritage 59 (January). 57–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2022.11.002 

  • Pagano, S.; Germinario, C.; Alberghina, M.F.; Covolan, M.; Mercurio, M.; Musmeci, D.; Piovesan, R.; Santoriello, A.; Schiavone, S.; Grifa, C. (2022) Multilayer Technology of Decorated Plasters from the domus of Marcus Vipsanus Primigenius at Abellinum (Campania Region, Southern Italy): An Analytical Approach. Minerals, 12, 1487. https://doi.org/10.3390/min12121487

  • Holakooei, P., Karimy, A.-H., Piovesan, R., Hosseinzadeh, J.,J averi, M., Antonelli, F., Maritan, L. (2022) Make up in the grave: scientific analysis of contents of the so-called kohl pots at the archaeological site of Estark–Joshaqan, central Iranian plateau. Archaeol. Anthropol. Sci. 14. 56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01511-8

  • Maritan, L., Piovesan, R., Dal Sasso, G., Baklouti, S., Casas, L., Mazzoli, C., Salmaso, L., Corain, L., (2020). Comparison between different image acquisition methods for grain-size analysis and quantification of ceramic inclusions by digital image processing: how much similar are the results?. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. doi: 10.1007/s12520-020-01096-0

  • Piovesan, R., Maritan, L., Meneghin, G., Previato, C., Baklouti, S., Sassi, R., Mazzoli, C.. (2019). Stones of the façade of the Sarno Baths, Pompeii: A mindful construction choice. Journal of Cultural Heritage. 40. doi: 0.1016/j.culher.2019.04.010.

  • Baccara, L., Bergamini, G.T., Berton, R., Mamone, L., Piovesan, R., Zaffanella, F. (2018). L’analisi del paesaggio per un progetto di equità. Mobilità lenta nel Delta del Po: alla riscoperta di un paesaggio dinamico. In B. Castiglioni, C.P. Santacroce, C. Quaglia, A. Dal Pozzo (Ed.) Il paesaggio tra conflittualità e integrazione - Materiali da un’esperienza formativa. (pp. 319-323). CLEUP. ISBN 9788854950108

  • Maritan, L., Piovesan, R., Dalconi, M.C., Rius, J., Crespi, A., Vallcorba, O., Casas, L., Vidale, M., Olivieri, L.M. (2018). Looking Like Gold: chlorite and talc transformation in the golden slip ware production (Swat valley, North-Western Pakistan). Minerals, 8 (5), 200. doi:10.3390/min8050200. ISSN: 2075-163X

  • Piovesan, R., Maritan, L., Amatucci, M., Nodari, L., Neguer, J. (in press). Wall painting pigments of Roman Empire age from Syria Palestina province (Israel). European Journal of Mineralogy.

  • Piovesan, R., Maritan, L., & Neguer, J. (2014). Characterising the unique polychrome sinopia under the Lod Mosaic, Israel : pigments and painting technique. Journal of Archaeological Science, 46C, 68-74. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.02.032. ISSN: 0305-4403

  • Tapete, D., Piovesan, R., Cantisani, E., Fratini, F., Mazzoli, C., & Maritan, L. (2014). Identification of lime-based mural painting techniques in catacomb environments using well-established criteria of stratigraphic investigation. In: Book of Abstracts. Seville, Spain, March 25-27, 2014

  • Piovesan, R., Dalconi, M. C., Maritan, L., & Mazzoli, C. (2013). X-ray powder diffraction clustering and quantitative phase analysis on historic mortars. European Journal of Mineralogy. doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2013/0025-2263. ISSN: 0935-1221

  • Morra, V., De Bonis, A., Grifa, C., Langella, A., Cavassa, L., & Piovesan, R. (2013). Minero-Petrographic Study of Cooking Ware and Pompeian Red Ware (Rosso Pompeiano) From Cuma (Southern Italy). Archaeometry, 55(5), 852–879. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4754.2012.00710.x. ISSN: 1475-4754

  • Piovesan, R., Mazzoli, C., Maritan, L., & Cornale, P. (2012). Fresco and lime-paint: an experimental study and objective criteria for distinguishing between these painting techniques. Archaeometry, 54(4), 723–736. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4754.2011.00647.x. ISSN: 1475-4754

  • Piovesan, R., Siddall, R., Mazzoli, C., & Nodari, L. (2011). The Temple of Venus (Pompeii): a study of the pigments and painting techniques. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38(10), 2633–2643. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2011.05.021. ISSN: 0305-4403

  • Piovesan, R., Curti, E., Grifa, C., Maritan, L., & Mazzoli, C. (2009). Petrographic & microstratigraphic analysis of mortar-based building materials from the Temple of Venus, Pompeii. In P. S. Quinn (Ed.), Interpreting silent artefacts: petrographic approaches to archaeological ceramics (pp. 65–79). Archaeopress. doi:10.1002/cbdv.200490137. ISBN: 9781905739295

  • Maritan, L., Piovesan, R., Mazzoli, C., Guidi, A., & Saracino, M. (2011). Caratterizzazione archeometrica preliminare di materiali ceramici provenienti dal territorio di Mondragone (Caserta). Rivista Di Scienze Preistoriche, LXI, 315–330. ISSN: 0035-6514

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