Dr. Pereira-Pardo is going to be an incredible educator. She's fantastic at explaining things in an understandable manner and she has an impressive knowledge of exactly how the machines work. Her vocabulary is incredible as well.
i know that the mona lisa can’t be cleaned with solvents because leonardo applied many layers of glaze and the risk of removing them would be too great. would that be the case with lasers too i wonder? it would be cool if it was a safer/possible way to restore the painting. this is so rad tbh i love conservation videos like this 👌🏼👌🏼
Idk tho 'cause Mona Lisa was painted with oil. Lasers have heat on them, and Linseed oil is flammable. It would be too risky to use the laser with an oil painting. It will probably burn.
@@introverttaciturn4133 CW lasers will put heat into it. A pulsed fiber laser will not damage the substrate. You can touch it and may be slightly warm but by pulsing it there is no continual heat.
I’d like to conserve the gelcoat on my sailboat. I wonder if a robot laser cleaner could be built to just polish off the top layers of oxidized gelcoat.
Science! Honestly, it's more complicated than this but in a nutshell: everything is made out of a different combination of molecules and lasers can be adjusted to "attack" certain molecules but not others
It's a solvent, dude. If she was using it just the once, I might agree with you, but she's going to be using it all day. And the next day, too. And so on until this restoration is finished, at which point she'll move on to another where she may have to do the same thing again. I think gloves are not unreasonable in that sort of situation. That sort of semi-constant contact can get irritating pretty fast, especially if they're using a higher concentration.
@Myrt Myrtle I think the whys are a bit different, but I'm sure they both treat it as just the standard procedure. In medicine it's to prevent those one in a million interactions that seem just fine, but there's something unexpected. Better to always use gloves, just in case that's this time. Here is more about the potential for damage from longer term exposure. Either way, it's just better to have it as a general rule and habit rather than rely on a bunch of different people's ideas of what's right for a certain situation. Plus, it's your hands. You need those things!
I totally agree that we should return these things back to their original homes but the fact that that particular area is very unstable (just look at what happened in Syria where many people such as from ISIS destroyed untold amounts of ancient artifacts), and I think most things should be kept away from that area until it becomes stable and people understand not to destroy, loot, etc these things.
Wearing gloves causes more damage than preserving it. Since the fibers on the gloves may lift pieces from the artworks. It's been proven. You can check it out.
Why the hell would you use small ancient artifacts as "samples"? I get that you need to see if what you are doing is okay by testing and I think this is very impressive work but please refrain from using any artifacts as "tests"
'Germans' call themselves the 'Deutsch'. The French the 'Francais'. The Japanese call themselves 'Nihonjin'. Names for different peoples and nationalities vary from country to country, and from language to language. Terms are only useful if they are understood by the audience that hears them. Describing the Eastern Roman Empire as 'Byzantines' aids understanding for a general audience. Plus, if you're so desperate to be a miserable, period-correct pedant, then why didn't you use the Greek or Latin words for 'Eastern Roman' instead of English ones yourself?
Dr. Pereira-Pardo is going to be an incredible educator. She's fantastic at explaining things in an understandable manner and she has an impressive knowledge of exactly how the machines work. Her vocabulary is incredible as well.
This is probably the coolest job on earth
Most boring job more like. 🥱
I`ve done a bit.
i LOVE that scissor jack lift table. its adorable !!
This kind of science is my dream job. As well as archeological metallurgy.
Very cool! Would love to see this piece when it's finished!
The voice of Elizabeth O'Connell is amazing! You should get her to narrate some more videos.
Amazing technology we have these days. :-)
This video is so good! More videos like this please
Impressive are both the elaborated processes and the money the British Museum puts into restauration.
Astonishing! :-)
i know that the mona lisa can’t be cleaned with solvents because leonardo applied many layers of glaze and the risk of removing them would be too great. would that be the case with lasers too i wonder? it would be cool if it was a safer/possible way to restore the painting. this is so rad tbh i love conservation videos like this 👌🏼👌🏼
Idk tho 'cause Mona Lisa was painted with oil. Lasers have heat on them, and Linseed oil is flammable. It would be too risky to use the laser with an oil painting. It will probably burn.
The7thTaciturnWriter true rip. maybe she just has to stay the way she is. (she still looks amazing tho so who’s
complaining really)
The Louvre will never clean off the filth as long as the tourists continue to flock to it. It's just a nasty golden goose.
@@introverttaciturn4133 CW lasers will put heat into it. A pulsed fiber laser will not damage the substrate. You can touch it and may be slightly warm but by pulsing it there is no continual heat.
I love Dr. Pereira's accent, sorry but iam a sucker for nice accents
Is this a repost? I'm not complaining, I just want to know if I'm going crazy.
Peter K I’m wondering the same thing. If not a repost, then perhaps I saw a similar video elsewhere. UPDATE: th-cam.com/video/QM8DG5P76EE/w-d-xo.html
Not Crazy! Yay!
Now it's a re-repost.
Wonderful!
ain't it though ?
Wow nice job
Great stuff
i like how she calles it the "BM"
What is the name of the song they put in the video?
Modern cutting edge laser technology, mixed with a laptop from the 90s...
you have millions of $ in tools, but you have dozens of dollars in computers LOL
Do you have a janitors closet in the lab?
The amazing konservation 👍
I’d like to conserve the gelcoat on my sailboat. I wonder if a robot laser cleaner could be built to just polish off the top layers of oxidized gelcoat.
I'd gelcoat your sailboat ;)
So.. it's basically a tattoo removal system for paintings
that's a way of seeing it lol
Is it just me or does it look like the saints are holding handbags?
Please, "Manbags."
@@robertdonnell8114 Yeah, sure ;)
All Kings & Saints carried Handbags.
@@AClarke2007 why did they do that ?
How they manage not to damage original work?
Science! Honestly, it's more complicated than this but in a nutshell: everything is made out of a different combination of molecules and lasers can be adjusted to "attack" certain molecules but not others
I had breast augmentation with a similar machine.
pereira que fas ahi ? pasa pa casa !
If the British museum didnt have these things they would be lost forever.
Must be expensive!
Keren sekali 😆
Hi we provide the laser wall painting machine
That music isn't related to Byzantine Egypt !!
You should have used coptic hymns instead
Wearing gloves to handle rubbing alcohol. What is it with health and safety in the UK?
It's a solvent, dude. If she was using it just the once, I might agree with you, but she's going to be using it all day. And the next day, too. And so on until this restoration is finished, at which point she'll move on to another where she may have to do the same thing again. I think gloves are not unreasonable in that sort of situation. That sort of semi-constant contact can get irritating pretty fast, especially if they're using a higher concentration.
@Myrt Myrtle I think the whys are a bit different, but I'm sure they both treat it as just the standard procedure. In medicine it's to prevent those one in a million interactions that seem just fine, but there's something unexpected. Better to always use gloves, just in case that's this time. Here is more about the potential for damage from longer term exposure. Either way, it's just better to have it as a general rule and habit rather than rely on a bunch of different people's ideas of what's right for a certain situation. Plus, it's your hands. You need those things!
Conservatist goes, Pew pew!
World-class thieves who stole the treasures of the world and are unwilling to return their stolen items to the countries from which they came.
this is hyyyype
Stolen in 1914 when Egypt was still a British colony, Will you please RETURN it
"saved"
@@stiannobelisto573 lol saved?
stolen you mongrel
@@jpeg2753 no, saved
I totally agree that we should return these things back to their original homes but the fact that that particular area is very unstable (just look at what happened in Syria where many people such as from ISIS destroyed untold amounts of ancient artifacts), and I think most things should be kept away from that area until it becomes stable and people understand not to destroy, loot, etc these things.
no gloves when handling the sample-holder into de SEM... omg!...
give it back to egypt then :/
huge disappointment as I thought this was another installment looking at this amazing technology. too bad it's a repost..
So basically they're restoring the painting from the damage the museum did 100 years ago? Haha okay.
I am glad you're perfection personified. We all dream to be like you one day.
please wear gloves to manipulate objects/parts going into an SEM...
Wearing gloves causes more damage than preserving it. Since the fibers on the gloves may lift pieces from the artworks. It's been proven. You can check it out.
Bad bad idea
Why the hell would you use small ancient artifacts as "samples"? I get that you need to see if what you are doing is okay by testing and I think this is very impressive work but please refrain from using any artifacts as "tests"
"Byzantine" are you trying to say Eastern Roman? They called themselves "Romans" "Byzantine" is a Victorian term totally out of period.
'Germans' call themselves the 'Deutsch'. The French the 'Francais'. The Japanese call themselves 'Nihonjin'. Names for different peoples and nationalities vary from country to country, and from language to language. Terms are only useful if they are understood by the audience that hears them. Describing the Eastern Roman Empire as 'Byzantines' aids understanding for a general audience. Plus, if you're so desperate to be a miserable, period-correct pedant, then why didn't you use the Greek or Latin words for 'Eastern Roman' instead of English ones yourself?
@@chrisball3778 oh shit 👀
Fascinating work though the art resembles something a gifted fifth-grader could do.
why do u care so much about that painting? ffs
YoshTG Because it tells us about our past. The same as why anything ancient is interesting.
omg, why do you let women do this?
Because they are educated and received training. Unlike yourself very obviously.