9781904982296 (pbk.)

1904982298 (pbk.)

Symposium held at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain, 5-6 October 2006.

Proceedings dedicated to Agnès Gräfen Ballestrem (1935-2007).

21 papers in English with abstracts also in Spanish and 8 in Spanish with abstracts also in English.

Proceedings of the Second Symposium of the Art Technological Source Research working group

Subtitle on cover: Proceedings of the Second Symposium of the Art Technological Source Research study group

Materials for art technological source research: theoretical issues

Towards a new discipline?

Asymptotically approaching the past: historiography and critical use of sources in art technological source research

Reading the past: methodological considerations for future research in art technology

Las dificultades especificas de la terminologia: a propósito de la traduccion comentada al alemán de lost capítulos sobre las técnicas pictóricas de tres tratados barrocos españoles

Los recetarios medievales de tecnología artistíca

Llaves y secretos para el estudio de los materiales del color

La revista como fuente de información para la tecnología artística: Carlos de Haes y su artículo 'Dibujo al carbón (aplicado al paisaje)'

La obtención de pigmentos azules para las obras de Felipe II: comercio europeo y americano

Patents as a source of documentation for studying art technology

Nineteenth-century English artists' colourmen's archives as a source of technical information

Las técnicas de policromía barroca del noroeste de Portugal en los contratos y los tratados pictóricos

El retoque a seco: evolución a traves de la historia de la pintura mural al fesco

Seventeenth-century machines for drawing celestial spheres

La mesa de trabajo de Fortuny

The painter's studio as a documentary source: a study of the final decades of Joan Miró

Marks engraved on gilded surfaces of paintings on wood: types and methodology

New technologies: new protocols

Islamic gilding technology: written sources and scientific analyses

Analyses of dyes on the map collection of the Real Chancillería of Granda

Analysis of pigments for miniatures

A micro-Raman spectroscopy study of the formation of lead dioxide from lead white

Cinnabar or vermilion?

Identification of pigments in a 17th-century coloured map using mico-Raman spectroscopy and PIXE

Sizing layers for oil painting in western European sources (1500-1900): historical recipes and reconstructions

Reconstruction of tempera painting techniques: some examples, including gesso sottile

Chararacterisation of purified verdigris obtained according to Recipe 101 of the Manoscritto Bolognese

Reconstruction of documented preparation methods of gesso grosso and gesso sottile in Spanish School panel paintings

Cochineal use in pre-Columbian paintings.

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