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  1. Tracing lead white sources in central European drawings from the 15th to 19th centuries using lead isotope analysis

    Article • Journal of Cultural Heritage, November 2026, Elsevier

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  2. Evaluating cleaning efficacy by image-based machine learning: case study of soot removal from silk

    Article • npj Heritage Science, August 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  3. Identifying Vilhelm Hammershøi’s career phases: a data-driven technical and art historical investigation of painting materials and themes.

    Article • Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, April 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kristian Præstholm, Gianluca Pastorelli

  4. Two Rembrandt portraits in focus: assessing a potential relationship

    Article • npj Heritage Science, March 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  5. Atmospheric-Pressure Atomic Oxygen for Targeted Removal of Flame-Derived Soot From Porous, Water–and Mechanically Sensitive Gypsum Plaster

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  6. Atomic oxygen plasma for controlled removal of carbonaceous deposits from delicate heritage substrates: soot removal from undyed silk objects

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  7. Plasma-Generated Near-Thermal Atomic Oxygen Reverses PbS-Induced Darkening of Lead White paint models: A Non-Contact Green Conservation Approach

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  8. The reproduction of fire-born soot for comparative cleaning tests on heritage objects

    Article • npj Heritage Science, November 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  9. Behind the mask − Archaeometric analysis of four gilded Romano-Egyptian mummy masks from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, June 2025, Elsevier

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  10. Experimental investigation of environmental and material factors in darkening of historic and modern lead white

    Article • Journal of Cultural Heritage, January 2025, Elsevier

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  11. Crack morphology and its correlation with ground materials used in paintings by Danish portrait painter Jens Juel

    Article • Journal of Cultural Heritage, September 2024, Elsevier

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  12. Darkening of lead white in old master drawings and historic prints: A multi-analytical investigation

    Article • Microchemical Journal, April 2024, Elsevier

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  13. Multi-analytical characterisation of red colouration on decorated ostrich eggshells from the Middle Bronze Age in Bahrain

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, December 2023, Elsevier

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  14. Interpretation of x‐ray spectral data using self‐organising maps and hierarchical clustering: A study of Vilhelm Hammershøi's use of painting materials

    Article • X-Ray Spectrometry, July 2023, Wiley

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  15. Correction: Exploring the private universe of Henri Matisse in The Red Studio

    Article • Heritage Science, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  16. Exploring the private universe of Henri Matisse in The Red Studio

    Article • Heritage Science, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  17. From microfibre cloths to poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogels – conservation cleaning of plastics heritage

    Article • Journal of Cultural Heritage, November 2021, Elsevier

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  18. New insights into Pablo Picasso’s La Miséreuse accroupie (Barcelona, 1902) using X-ray fluorescence imaging and reflectance spectroscopies combined with micro-analyses of samples

    Article • SN Applied Sciences, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  19. The rarest blue: An exceptional find of lapis lazuli in the polychromy of a funerary portrait from ancient Palmyra

    Article • Archaeometry, January 2020, Wiley

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  20. Development of dose-response functions for historic paper degradation using exposure to natural conditions and multivariate regression

    Article • Polymer Degradation and Stability, October 2019, Elsevier

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  21. Effects of protective treatments on particle deposition and colour variation in stone surfaces exposed to an urban environment

    Article • Progress in Organic Coatings, November 2017, Elsevier

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  22. Shape-from-Shifting: Uncalibrated Photometric Stereo with a Mobile Device

    Article • October 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  23. Environmentally induced colour change during natural degradation of selected polymers

    Article • Polymer Degradation and Stability, September 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Abdelrazek Elnaggar, Gianluca Pastorelli

  24. Surface yellowing and fragmentation as warning signs of depolymerisation in Baltic amber

    Article • Polymer Degradation and Stability, November 2013, Elsevier

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  25. Hydrolysis of Baltic amber during thermal ageing – An infrared spectroscopic approach

    Article • Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, April 2013, Elsevier

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  26. Evidence concerning oxidation as a surface reaction in Baltic amber

    Article • Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, April 2012, Elsevier

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  27. Characterisation of historic plastics using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy and pulsed imaging

    Article • Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  28. Photoageing of Baltic amber – Influence of daylight radiation behind window glass on surface colour and chemistry

    Article • Polymer Degradation and Stability, November 2011, Elsevier

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  29. A comparative study by infrared spectroscopy and optical oxygen sensing to identify and quantify oxidation of Baltic amber in different ageing conditions

    Article • Journal of Cultural Heritage, April 2011, Elsevier

    Gianluca Pastorelli

  30. Identification of volatile degradation products from Baltic amber by headspace solid-phase microextraction coupled with gas chromatography–mass spectrometry

    Article • Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gianluca Pastorelli