Paint Material Analysis Helps Restore and Authenticate Artwork | Research In Action | LiveScience
Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist (Francesco Granacci; ca. 1506–1507), egg tempera, oil, and gold on wood; 77.6×151.1 cm. Bottom: Cross Section of paint layers from Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist, 20x objective, DIC light.
CREDIT: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Purchase of Gwynne Andrews, Harris Brisbane Dick, Dodge, Fletcher, and Rogers; funds from various donors; gift from Ella Morris de Peyster and Mrs. Donald Oenslager; and gifts in memory of Robert Lehman, 1970 (1970.134.1)This Research in Action article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
Not apparent in the above scene from The Life of Saint John the Baptist by Francesco Granacci (ca. 1506–1507) are the paint layers comprising it, as seen in the bottom image.
Conservators from the Department of Scientific Research at the Metropolitan Museum of Art have partnered with scientists from Columbia University in New York
to apply immunological analysis techniques to art conservation so that a painting's every detail, from every layer, is revealed.
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