10904
Accession Number
8780
Title Of Article Chaper
A technical investigation of some seventeenth century New England portrait paintings
Title Of Journal Book
Preprints of papers presented at the tenth annual meeting Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 20-30 May, 1982
Pages
85-95
Publisher
American Institute for Conservation
Publisher City
Washington
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Monograph
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
The study of a number of 17th century American portraits by largely anonymous artists indicated the materials and technique of early New England painters. The wide range of pigments identified in this investigation are exactly those which one finds in contemporaneous European works.
Keywords
Painting, analysis; painting, technique material; painting, technique artistic; painting, radiography x ray; painting, paint layer optics; painting, paint layer; painting, examination ultraviolet; painting, examination infrared; painting, examination; pigment, analysis -- ICCROM
pub_id
10904