Alteration of medieval stained glass windows
Most significant innovations. Materials and chemistry

Tiziana LOMBARDO, Senior Lecturer, Laboratoire interuniversitaire des Systèmes atmosphériques, UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Université Paris Diderot, Créteil

Lucile GENTAZ, Research Engineer, Laboratoire interuniversitaire des Systèmes atmosphériques, UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Université Paris Diderot, Créteil

Claudine LOISEL, Research Engineer, Historic Monuments Research Laboratory, CRC-USR 3224, Champs-sur-Marne, France

The short-lived glass used in medieval stained glass windows in Northern Europe is often in a poor state of preservation. In order to preserve them, a research strategy, taking into account the atmospheric environment and the material, was put in place...