title: GC-MS characterisation and identification of natural terpenic resins employed in works of art.
abstract: Natural resins were frequently employed in the past as adhesives or as components of oleo-resinous media in paintings. The identification of vegetable resins is still an open problem. The aim of this paper is to analyse by GC-MS some vegetable resins frequently employed in paintings, such as Venice turpentine, dammar, copal, elemi, in order to identify their main components in samples both raw and aged. Some molecules are proposed as chemical markers to identify these natural resins. Two samples scraped off from XV and XVII century paintings were used to test the reliability of proposed method.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Chimica, Università La Sapienza, 00185 Roma, Italy. giampaolo.cartoni@uniroma1.it
authors.forename: Giampaolo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cartoni
authors.forename: Mario Vincenzo
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Russo
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Spinelli
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Talarico
mesh_terms: D015415:Biomarkers; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D010151:Paintings; D010938:Plant Oils / Q000737:chemistry*; D012116:Resins, Plant / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D014425:Turpentine / Q000032:analysis / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D010938:Plant Oils; D012116:Resins, Plant; D014425:Turpentine