TY - JOUR
T1 - Defining the first preventive conservation guidelines for hand-painted magic lantern glass slides
AU - Santos, Ângela
AU - Rodrigues, Beatriz
AU - Otero, Vanessa
AU - Vilarigues, Márcia
N1 - The authors acknowledge the support of the Portuguese Foundation for
Science and Technology (FCT-MCTES), through the doctoral program
CORES-PD/00253/2012, for the PhD grant PD/BD/136694/2018 (Ângela
Santos), and Research Unit VICARTE (UIDB/00729/2020). This research
has benefited from the use of the infrastructure PRISC (Portuguese
Research Infrastructure of Scientific Collections). The authors are also
grateful to all the institutions and individuals that accepted to participate
in the online survey, and to the Portuguese Cinematheque – Museum
of Cinema, and National Museum of Natural History and Science of the
University of Lisbon for the collaboration with the project "Lanterna Magica
– Technology and Preservation of Painted Glass Slides for Projection with
Magic Lanterns". The authors would also like to acknowledge for the
relevant comments of the reviewers that significantly contributed to the
improvement of the manuscript.
PY - 2021/5/31
Y1 - 2021/5/31
N2 - This article intends to define and make available guidelines for the preventive conservation of hand-painted glass slides for magic lanterns, the first optical instruments for the projection of images, invented in the 17th century. For this purpose, around 300 hand-painted glass slides from the Portuguese Cinematheque - Museum of Cinema (CP) and Nacional Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Lisbon (MUHNAC), were studied in terms of representativity in these collections, discursive genre, type of construction or movement mechanism, state of preservation and degradation problems. A survey was designed and distributed to institutions across the globe aiming for an overview of the formal characteristics of the collections of magic lantern slides and the preventive and interventive conservation measures undertaken. The guidelines are focused on the environmental conditions (temperature, relative humidity, and light), fine particles and pest control, storage and display conditions and materials, as well as handling. Recommendations on performative projections or demonstrations are also provided.
AB - This article intends to define and make available guidelines for the preventive conservation of hand-painted glass slides for magic lanterns, the first optical instruments for the projection of images, invented in the 17th century. For this purpose, around 300 hand-painted glass slides from the Portuguese Cinematheque - Museum of Cinema (CP) and Nacional Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Lisbon (MUHNAC), were studied in terms of representativity in these collections, discursive genre, type of construction or movement mechanism, state of preservation and degradation problems. A survey was designed and distributed to institutions across the globe aiming for an overview of the formal characteristics of the collections of magic lantern slides and the preventive and interventive conservation measures undertaken. The guidelines are focused on the environmental conditions (temperature, relative humidity, and light), fine particles and pest control, storage and display conditions and materials, as well as handling. Recommendations on performative projections or demonstrations are also provided.
KW - Magic Lantern glass slides
KW - Painting materials
KW - Glass
KW - Preventive conservation
KW - Portuguese Cinematheque – Museum of Cinema
KW - National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC)
U2 - 10.14568/cp2020033
DO - 10.14568/cp2020033
M3 - Article
VL - 37
JO - Conservar Património
JF - Conservar Património
ER -