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View article: Different shades, various metals: A multianalytical investigation on Iranian copper-based artifacts (7th–14th century CE) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Different shades, various metals: A multianalytical investigation on Iranian copper-based artifacts (7th–14th century CE) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Open
A group of copper-based artifacts in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, lacking clear archaeological provenance, has been attributed to early and pre-modern Islamic Iran based on their stylistic features and forms. To gain i…
View article: Sasanian and early Islamic copper-base metalworking at Qasr-e Abu Nasr, south-central Iran
Sasanian and early Islamic copper-base metalworking at Qasr-e Abu Nasr, south-central Iran Open
A group of metal objects excavated at Qasr-e Abu Nasr in south-central Iran in the 1930s, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been analyzed to examine metalworking techniques and metallurgical processes. Thirty-thr…
View article: Sasanian Niello Inlay: Microanalytical Investigation of a Silver Oval Bowl with Tigers and Grapevines
Sasanian Niello Inlay: Microanalytical Investigation of a Silver Oval Bowl with Tigers and Grapevines Open
Researchers utilized non-invasive analytical techniques such as micro-X-ray fluorescence (µ-XRF) spectroscopy, micro-X-ray diffraction (µ-XRD), and micro-Raman spectroscopy to examine a silver oval bowl adorned with tigers and grapevines, …
View article: Polychromy in Ancient Greek Sculpture: New Scientific Research on an Attic Funerary Stele at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Polychromy in Ancient Greek Sculpture: New Scientific Research on an Attic Funerary Stele at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Open
Polychromy in Ancient Greek Sculpture was the subject of the exhibition Chroma: Ancient Greek Sculpture in Color, held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), New York, in 2022–2023. On this occasion, a multidisciplinary project invol…
View article: Back in Black: getting beneath the haze on Adolph Gottlieb’s Thrust
Back in Black: getting beneath the haze on Adolph Gottlieb’s Thrust Open
Thrust (1959) is an iconic example of Adolph Gottlieb’s series of “Bursts” (1956-1974). The painting is grand in scale and consists of an aggressive thrash of black, gestural strokes beneath a crimson, haloed disc, on a white background. G…
View article: The Life of a Painting as Traced by Technical Analysis: Original Materials and Posthumous Alterations in Édouard Manet’s Woman in Striped Dress
The Life of a Painting as Traced by Technical Analysis: Original Materials and Posthumous Alterations in Édouard Manet’s Woman in Striped Dress Open
Among the holdings of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, is a large-scale portrait by Édouard Manet that remained apparently unfinished upon the artist’s death, in April 1883. This work, now known as Woman in Striped Dress, be…
View article: Discovering the evolution of Jacques-Louis David’s portrait of Antoine-Laurent and Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier
Discovering the evolution of Jacques-Louis David’s portrait of Antoine-Laurent and Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier Open
Jacques-Louis David’s (1748–1825) iconic portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie-Anne Lavoisier (Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836) has come to epitomize a modern couple born of the Enlightenment. An analytical app…
View article: Goal-Oriented hp-Adaptive Finite Element Methods: A Painless Multi-level Automatic Coarsening Strategy
Goal-Oriented hp-Adaptive Finite Element Methods: A Painless Multi-level Automatic Coarsening Strategy Open
In many engineering applications, the global energy of the problem may be a quantity of limited relevance. This motivated the design of goal-oriented adaptive finite element methods (see e.g. [1,4-6]). They intend to approximate a particul…
View article: Johannes Vermeer’s Mistress and Maid: new discoveries cast light on changes to the composition and the discoloration of some paint passages
Johannes Vermeer’s Mistress and Maid: new discoveries cast light on changes to the composition and the discoloration of some paint passages Open
Among the thirty-six paintings ascribed to the Dutch seventeenth century artist Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), Mistress and Maid, in The Frick Collection, stands out for the large-scale figures set against a rather plain background depictin…
View article: A material and technical study of Paracas painted ceramics
A material and technical study of Paracas painted ceramics Open
View article: Painting with recycled materials: on the morphology of calcite pseudomorphs as evidence of the use of wood ash residues in Baroque paintings
Painting with recycled materials: on the morphology of calcite pseudomorphs as evidence of the use of wood ash residues in Baroque paintings Open
The nature of ground preparations is of critical interest to those engaging in the study of historical painting techniques, as certain materials can be identified with specific regions and school of painting. This is the case of a particul…
View article: Van Gogh’s Irises and Roses: the contribution of chemical analyses and imaging to the assessment of color changes in the red lake pigments
Van Gogh’s Irises and Roses: the contribution of chemical analyses and imaging to the assessment of color changes in the red lake pigments Open
Vincent van Gogh’s still lifes Irises and Roses were investigated to shed light onto the degree to which the paintings had changed, both individually and in relation to each other since they were painted, particularly in regard to the fadi…
View article: Wavelength-dependent absorption and scattering effects on laser cleaning of a corroded iron alloy European scale armor
Wavelength-dependent absorption and scattering effects on laser cleaning of a corroded iron alloy European scale armor Open
This research seeks to optimize Nd:YAG laser cleaning parameters for the removal of corrosion products on historic iron alloy surfaces.This article presents the treatment of a 19th-century, European scale armor jazeran in the collection of…