Publication on the Corrosion of Bell Bronze
PRESENTATION
The chapter of the book titled “Deterioration of Bell Bronze: An Artistic and Acoustic Heritage in Danger?” demonstrates the value of an investigation using materials science to safeguard, preserve, and restore the heritage of bells. Through an original methodological approach led by the ANR BellACorr project, it presents the reader with a scientific laboratory study aimed at determining the origins and mechanisms of deterioration in bells—often monumental objects of communication and vessels of a millennia-old societal history, encompassing industrial, cultural, and religious dimensions. This chapter also illustrates the full multidisciplinary potential of the study of bells and chimes. Indeed, in the book *Tintinnabula: Bells and Chimes from Antiquity to the 21st Century*, edited by Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, it combines an archaeological approach to these objects with an exploration of their sacred and literary contexts, while also examining their musical production. The book, comprising the proceedings of the international symposium “Tintinnabula, Bells and Chimes. Current Issues in Campanology, from Antiquity to the 21st Century,” held on March 6 and 7, 2025, at the Musée d’Art Campanaire in L’Isle-Jourdain (32), was published with the support of the University Press of the Catholic Institute of Toulouse and the Patrimoine Littérature Histoire (PLH) laboratory at the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès.
Références de l’ouvrage
"Tintinnabula, cloches et clochettes, de l’Antiquité au XXIè siècle".
Editions Classique GARNIER
ISBN 978-2-406-19914-4
ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THIS CHAPTER
Aline Petitmangin, a physicist by training, is an associate professor at the University of Créteil in the “Physical Measurements” department of the Créteil-Vitry University Institute of Technology (IUT), where she teaches. She is also a researcher at LISA. Her research focuses on atmospheric deterioration of heritage materials, specifically metals and alloys found in architectural and instrumental heritage. She is the principal investigator and scientific coordinator of the ANR BellACorr project, for which she coordinates the research efforts of the five laboratories she has brought together at the national level.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND EDITOR OF THIS BOOK
Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, Associate Dean of the Free Faculty of Letters and Humanities at the Catholic Institute of Toulouse, is an associate professor of ancient history. Specializing in archaeomusicology, he also studies the reception of antiquity in popular culture.
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