Radiography and painting / Elisabeth Ravaud.

Turnhout : Brepols, [2023]

©2023

2 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, portraits ; 35 cm

Based on thesis (doctoral)--Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2011.

Radiography is a technique which has been employed in the study of paintings for more than a century. The history of this method of analysis indicates that its development has been modest since the 1960s, as its use has been limited to reductive approaches that take into account no more than the immediately intelligible signs. By systematically considering the physical mechanisms involved in the creation of an image, this volume seeks to demonstrate that we can access new fields of radiological analysis by identifying two categories of "signs": those that may be obvious, but whose meaning is misleading, and those which are not immediately comprehensible.

English

April 10, 2024

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-226) and index.