Changing pictures
Subtitle: discoloration in 15th-17th-century oil paintings
By: Margriet van Eikema Hommes
Publisher: Archetype; Archetype Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Pigments -- Preservation; Painting, Renaissance -- Conservation and restoration; Paint -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Determining the intentions of painting methods and recipes; title: Methods used by painters to prevent colour changes described in 16th to early 18th century sources on oil painting; title: Verdigris glazes in historical oil paintings: recipes and techniques; title: Indigo as a pigment in oil painting and its fading problems; title: Discoloratin or chiaroscuro? an interpretation of the dark areas in Raphael's Transfiguration of Christ