Premessa
10.6092/issn.1973-9494/15290
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1973-9494
15290
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Salvatore Lorusso
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Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage
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Text.Serial.Journal
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Opening section
2022-08-02
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2022-08-02
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Salvatore Lorusso
2021
10.6092/issn.1973-9494/15290
Editor-in-Chief
1973-9494
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Premise
https://conservation-science.unibo.it/article/download/15290/14518
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P   REMISE

Salvatore Lorusso
Editor-in-Chief


             At that time, in 2001 – the year the journal “Conservation Science in
         Cultural Heritage” was first published – there was a need for renewal, for a
         journal that would consider the reality of the present and the past, and so re-
         veal a new vision and themes and exchanges in a world where action was
         needed: the sector of cultural and environmental heritage.
             We can only imagine the effect it had on the opposition and codified
         unwillingness.
             Was it a union of heterogenous phenomena?
             Was it the result of conflict, of a different scientific view?
             A different aesthetics ethics?
             A mix of ideology and science? A coincidence?
             An attempt that should be considered extraordinary and/or only the re-
         sult of a determined will?
             It is for its very definiteness that this innovative view has lasted so long,
         looking at the reality regarding the study and research in the sector with dif-
         ferent eyes, in other words, scientific value as a synergy of the human sci-
         ences and experimental sciences and its actuality as an instrument for es-
         tablishing a common vision, a meeting point for several views.
             In the context of the numerous and different problems of protection and
         valorization of cultural heritage reference has been made to the importance
         and the meaning of “looking” and the consequent meeting of “views”.
             To reiterate, if “seeing” is an act carried out only with the eyes, that is,
         evaluating a work of art only by means of a stylistic, aesthetic, iconograph-
         ic and historical analysis, “looking” necessarily also implies, for complete-
         ness and correctness, a diagnostic-analytical study that confirms or con-
         futes the previous one: ultimately, in the first case, an evaluation with human
         eyes that can be compared, in the second case, to that carried out with in-
         strumental eyes and, therefore, a valid ocular answer attributable to the
         competence of the historian and likewise a reliable judgment based on the
         technician’s use of technologies.
             The sphere of multi-faceted themes connected to the protection and
         valorisation of cultural and environmental heritage, also includes other sci-
         entific, philological-philosophical-social and economic-managerial-legal ar-
         eas, in accordance with the principle of interdisciplinarity.
             It is in this irrefutable truth that the Journal places its “belief” to which
         scholars from around the world have responded with enthusiasm over the
         years by submitting their papers.
             Our intention, therefore, in the current issue, N. 21 (2021), on the occa-
         sion of its twenty-year anniversary, is to start with a premise to the sequence
         of papers, presentations by different personalities in a meeting with remote
         participation and organized in Bologna by the Academy of Sciences of the
         Institute of Bologna (Accademia delle Scienze dell’Istituto di Bologna).
