Digitally Assisted Preservation and Restoration of a Fragmented Mural in a Tang Tomb

摘要

Digital technology is being increasingly designed and employed to support the preservationand restoration of ancient murals. The contributions of digital technologiesto this study were planned from the very beginning, as the complexity of this restorationnecessitated the design of innovative procedures to manage the restorationand reconstruction processes and to record the details and deformation of the mural.This paper takes the digital restoration of the "maid holding a fan" mural in the TangZhaoling Duan Jianbi tomb as an example. In view of the large number and dislocationof mural fragments, the application of digital restoration technology and itsachievements in the restoration of this ancient mural are preliminarily explored incombination with high-precision digital information collection and recording. Technicalsuggestions and details regarding the digital restoration of the mural are putforward to serve as guidance for the preservation and restoration of ancient murals.