Ground layers in European painting 1550-1750 / edited by Anne Haack Christensen, Angela Jager and Joyce H. Townsend.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haack Christensen, Anne, editor.

Jäger, Angela, editor.

Townsend, Joyce, editor.

Centre for Art Technological Studies and Conservation.

Series:

CATS proceedings ; 2019.

CATS proceedings ; 2019

Language:

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

Painting, European--16th century--Congresses.

Painting, European.

Painting, European--17th century--Congresses.

Painting, European--18th century--Congresses.

Painting--Conservation and restoration--Congresses.

Painting.

Painting--Technique--History.

Painting--Technique--Congresses.

Painting--Technique.

History.

Painting--Conservation and restoration.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

146 pages : color illustrations, charts ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Archetype Publications, 2020.

Contents:

Troubleshooting coloured grounds: developing a methodology for studying Netherlandish ground colours p. 1 / Moorea Hall-Aquitania and Lieve d'Hont

Experiments using image processing software (Nip2) to define the colour of preparatory layers in 16th-century Italian paintings p. 10 / Joanna Russell and Marta Melchiorre Di Crescenzo and Joseph Padfield and Marika Spring

New light on the use of ash in the ground preparations of baroque paintings from Spain, North and South America p. 21 / Silvia A. Centeno and Dorothy Mahon and Federico Carò and José Luis Lazarte Luna

European art in Argentina: the ground of a painting attributed to Salvator Rosa p. 31 / Mariana Aurora Calderón Mejia and Dolores González Pondal and Damasia Gallegos and Fernando Marte and Marcos Tascón

Coloured grounds and transfer techniques in 17th-century Spanish royal portraiture: the case of Pantoja de la Cruz's portrait of Philip III at the Harvard Art Museums p. 34 / Cristina Morilla and Narayan Khandekar and Kate Smith and Anne Schaffer

Velázquez and his choice of preparatory layers: different place, different colour? p. 44 / Maite Jover de Celis and Maria Dolores Gayo

To reach the original: technique and materials of the late 17th-century Italian painter of large-scale battle scenes, Martino Altomonte p. 55 / Joanna Szpor and Katarzyna Górecka and Marcin Kozarzewski

White, red, grey and brown: colour in Genoese grounds from the mid-16th to the 18th century p. 64 / Michela Fasce

Discovering patterns in Giralamo Troppa's grounds p. 70 / Loa Ludvigsen and David Buti and Anna Vila and Eva de la Fuente Pedersen

Ground layers in French paintings from the second half of the 17th century: colour, stratigraphy and function p. 84 / Claire Betelu

The effect of ground colour on the appearance of two paintings by Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert in the Oranjezaal Huts Ten Bosch p. 93 / Lidwien Speleers and Margriet van Eikema Hommes and Ineke Joosten and Suzan de Groot and Annelies van Loon

Are the changed appearances of Carel Fabritius' paintings a consequence of mobility? p. 107 / Jørgen Wadum

Discovering trends in Jan Steen's grounds using principal component analysis p. 118 / Marya Albrecht and Sabrina Meloni and Annelies van Loon and Ralph Haswell and Onno de Noord

The grounds of Caravaggism? Case study of Theodoor van Loon p. 132 / Claire Toussat

Preparatory layers in British paintings from the 16th to the early 18th century p. 140 / Joyce H. Townsend and Rica Jones.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781909492790

1909492795

OCLC:

1229848006