Organic Mass Spectrometry in Art and Archaeology

List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Preface. PART I INTRODUCTION. 1 Organic Materials in Art and Archaeology ( Maria Perla Colombini and Francesca Modugno ). 2 Overview of Mass Spectrometric Based Techniques Applied in the Cultural Heritage Field ( Gianluca Giorgi ). PART II DIRECT MASS SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSIS. 3 Direct Mass Spectrometric Techniques: Versatile Tools to Characterise Resinous Materials ( Erika Ribechini ). 4 Direct Mass Spectrometry to Characterise Wax and Lipid Materials ( Martine Regert ). 5 GALDI-MS Applied to Characterise Natural Varnishes and Binders ( Patrick Dietemann and Christoph Herm ). 6 MALDI-MS Applied to the Analysis of Protein Paint Binders ( Stepanka Kuckova, Radovan Hynek and Milan Kodicek ). PART III GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY/MASS SPECTROMETRY. 7 GC/MS in the Characterization of Lipids ( Maria Perla Colombini, Francesca Modugno and Erika Ribechini ). 8 GC/MS in the Characterisation of Resinous Materials ( Francesca Modugno and Erika Ribechini ). 9 GC/MS in the Characterisation of Protein Paint Binders ( Maria Perla Colombini and Gwenaelle Gautier ). 10 SPME/GC-MS in the Characterisation of Terpenic Resins ( Jean Bleton and Alain Tchapla ). 11 Py-GC/MS of Organic Paint Binders ( Ilaria Bonaduce and Alessia Andreotti ). 12 Py-GC/MS of Natural and Synthetic Resins ( Dominique Scalarone and Oscar Chiantore ). PART IV LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY/MASS SPECTROMETRY. 13 Characterization of Organic Natural Dyes by Electrospray Mass Spectrometry Coupled with HPLC and/or Capillary Electrophoresis ( Katarzyna Lech, Katarzyna Polec'-Pawlak and Maciej Jarosz ). PART V OTHER MS-BASED TECHNIQUES. 14 Compound-specific Stable Isotopes in Organic Residue Analysis in Archaeology ( Richard P. Evershed ). 15 ToF-SIMS Study of Organic Materials in Cultural Heritage: Identification and Chemical Imaging ( Vincent Mazel and Pascale Richardin ). 16 Accelerator Mass Spectrometry for 14 C Dating ( Mariaelena Fedi ). Index.