Rethinking the history of artists' pigments through chemical analysis.
Following a brief overview of the history of analysis of artists' pigments, I discuss the illustrative example of lead-tin yellow. Recent advances in our knowledge of artists' use of red lakes, glassy pigments, and metallic pigments in works of cultural heritage, particularly European paintings, as determined from chemical analyses are described.
Scientific Research Department, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 20565, USA. b-berrie@nga.gov
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