Back Cover: Large‐Area Elemental Imaging Reveals Van Eyck's Original Paint Layers on the Ghent Altarpiece (1432), Rescoping Its Conservation Treatment (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 17/2017)
Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece is considered by many to be the pinnacle of European mediaeval paintxting. In their Communication on page 4797 ff., G. Van der Snickt et al. describe how they used large‐ and microscale elemental imaging (EI) to obtain compositional maps for the surface of the verso...
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Published in | Angewandte Chemie International Edition Vol. 56; no. 17; p. 4892 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Weinheim
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
18.04.2017
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Edition | International ed. in English |
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Summary: | Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece is considered by many to be the pinnacle of European mediaeval paintxting. In their Communication on page 4797 ff., G. Van der Snickt et al. describe how they used large‐ and microscale elemental imaging (EI) to obtain compositional maps for the surface of the verso wing panels of the altarpiece, which allowed visualization and assessment of the original paint layers below the overpainting. Thus, EI provided objective arguments supporting the decision for full removal of the overpaint. |
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ISSN: | 1433-7851 1521-3773 |
DOI: | 10.1002/anie.201702702 |