TY - JOUR A1 - Pirskawetz, Stephan T1 - The burned shield-bearers: a detective story JF - Environmental Earth Sciences N2 - Severe fires at the Friedrichshain flak bunker in May 1945 destroyed or severely damaged an important part of the collection of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin, today’s Bode Museum. Fragments of two marble sculptures by Tullio Lombardo, sculptor of the Italian renaissance, have survived and are now stored in the Bode Museum. In preparation for restoration, the condition of the sculptures has been documented in detail in 2010. The study revealed that the fragments are not stable enough to exhibit them in a horizontal nor in an upright position. The intention of a further study in 2012 was to find a correlation between ultrasonic velocity and mechanical properties of burned Carrara marble as a basis for stabilization measures. The results and numerous supplementary experiments show that the current condition of the sculptural fragments can not only be explained by the exposure to fire. KW - Marble sculptures KW - Marble deterioration KW - Fire KW - Ultrasonic velocities KW - Mechanical properties PY - 2018 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-018-7267-z SN - 1866-6280 SN - 1866-6299 VL - 77 IS - 4 SP - Article 130, 1 EP - 12 PB - Springer-Verlag GmbH CY - Berlin Heidelberg AN - OPUS4-44159 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -