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 inAngewandte Chemie International Edition Vol. 56; no. 17; p. 4892
Main Authors Van der Snickt, Geert, Dubois, Hélène, Sanyova, Jana, Legrand, Stijn, Coudray, Alexia, Glaude, Cécile, Postec, Marie, Van Espen, Piet, Janssens, Koen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Weinheim Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 18.04.2017
EditionInternational ed. in English
Subjects
chemical imaging
Ghent altarpiece
MA-XRF scanning
SEM-EDX
van Eyck
Wing panels
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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.
ISSN:1433-7851
1521-3773
DOI:10.1002/anie.201702702