Pigment Compendium: Optical Microscopy of Historical Pigments
- 1st Edition - December 14, 2004
- Latest edition
- Authors: Valentine Walsh, Nicholas Eastaugh, Ruth Siddall, Tracey Chaplin
- Language: English
This is an essential purchase for all painting conservators and conservation scientists dealing with paintings and painted objects. It provides the first definitive manual… Read more
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Description
Description
This is an essential purchase for all painting conservators and conservation scientists dealing with paintings and painted objects. It provides the first definitive manual dedicated to optical microscopy of historical pigments.
Illustrated throughout with full colour images reproduced to the highest possible quality, this book is based on years of painstaking research into the visual and optical properties of pigments.
Groundbreaking and comprehensive, the Pigment Compendium is a major addition to the study and understanding of historic pigments.
Illustrated throughout with full colour images reproduced to the highest possible quality, this book is based on years of painstaking research into the visual and optical properties of pigments.
Groundbreaking and comprehensive, the Pigment Compendium is a major addition to the study and understanding of historic pigments.
Key features
Key features
* Invaluable reference for both painting conservators and conservation scientists
* Covers over 250 ancient and modern artist's pigments worldwide
* Full colour throughout for pigment identification
* Covers over 250 ancient and modern artist's pigments worldwide
* Full colour throughout for pigment identification
Readership
Readership
Practising conservators, trainees and students working in the field of painting conservation and conservation science dealing with paintings and painted objects worldwide. Also, conservators in the field of geology and forensic scientists.
Table of contents
Table of contents
Introductory essays
Pigments in colour order, including photographs, optical analysis, summary, references
Glossary/Synonyms
Tables
Pigments in colour order, including photographs, optical analysis, summary, references
Glossary/Synonyms
Tables
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: December 14, 2004
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
VW
Valentine Walsh
Painting conservator, with her own private conservation business. Also a visiting lecturer for Sotheby's Fine Art Course, Guildhall University, University of Northumbria, Croatian State Institute for Conservation and ICCROM.
Affiliations and expertise
The Pigmentum Project, London, UKNE
Nicholas Eastaugh
Affiliations and expertise
The Pigmentum Project, London; the Research Laboratory for
Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, UKRS
Ruth Siddall
Affiliations and expertise
The Pigmentum Project; Department of Earth Sciences, University College, London, UKTC
Tracey Chaplin
Affiliations and expertise
The Pigmentum Project; Department of Chemistry, University College, London, UK