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Pigment Compendium: Optical Microscopy of Historical Pigments
Author(s): Nicholas Eastaugh (Author), Valentine Walsh (Author), Tracey Chaplin (Author), Ruth Siddall (Author)
- Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
- Publication Date: 14 Dec. 2004
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 456 pages
- ISBN-10: 0750645539
- ISBN-13: 9780750645539
Book 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. It covers over 250 ancient and modern artist’s pigments worldwide. It features full colour throughout for pigment identification.
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From the Publisher
The introduction includes:A basic explanation of crystalography and polarising microscopyA description of the collections of pigments used for the book, where and how they were chemically analysed a rationale for their inclusionAn explanation of the mounting procedures usedThe main body of the book is made up of photographs of pigments. The pigments are principally taken from three sources:The Canadian Conservation Institute/von Imhoff standard collectionThe Hafkenschied Collection held at the Tylers museum in HaarlemThe collection of Dr. Georg Kremer in Germanyas well as other important collections of pigments.The photographs are accompanied by limited text giving the salient features for characterisation of that pigment as illustrated by the photographs – these are arranged by colours.
About the Author
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.
