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Colour change in paintings / edited by Rhiannon Clarricoates, Helen Dowding and Alexandra Gent.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Archetype Publications in association with the Icon Paintings Group, 2016Description: ix, 130 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781909492431
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Contents:
Fading, darkening, browning, blanching: a review of our current understanding of colour change and its consequences in old master paintings / Marika Spring -- Colour change and restoration / Larry Keith -- Colour Changes due to the Fading of Prussian Blue in Danish Golden Age Paintings / Troels Filtenborg, David Buti, Anna Vila, Jørgen Wadum -- "Paintings fade like flowers": colour change in paintings by Vincent van Gogh / Ella Hendriks -- Colour change and modern paints; an overview / Bronwyn Ormsby and Judith Lee -- Non-Invasive Colour Restoration of Mark Rothko's Harvard Murals Using Light from a Digital Projector / Jens Stenger, Narayan Khandekar, Ramesh Raskar, Santiago Cuellar, Ankit Mohan, Rudolf Gschwind, Mary Schneider Enriquez, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Christina Rosenberger -- Microfading: a useful tool for paintings conservators? / Joyce H. Townsend -- An Introduction to the Measurement and Comparison of Light Sources used Within Cultural Heritage / Joseph Padfield -- Lost Purples: Detection, Composition and Reconstruction: Re-discovering the Appearance and Contemporary Resonance of Purple Paint in Tudor and Stuart Portraits / Caroline Rae, Courtauld Institute of Art ; Libby Sheldon, University College London -- Choosing colour; the reconstruction of green textiles in The National Synod by Pouwel Weyts / Johanneke Verhave and Lidwien Speleers -- Vivid Colours in the Golden Room: An educated but tentative reconstruction of an ensemble by Pellegrini in the Mauritshuis / Carol Pottasch, Sabrina Meloni, Ivo Hoekstra, Margriet van Eikema Hommes, Ralph Haswell -- Investigating surface phenomena in paints and paintings by Edvard Munch (1863−1944) - in the context of the artist's painting materials / Jin Strand Ferrer, Alyssa Hull and Terje Syversen.
Summary: The papers in this volume were presented at the Icon Publishing Group conference 'Appearance and Reality: Examining Colour Change in Paintings' which attempted to present an overview of the current state of research related to colour change in paintings, ranging from Old Masters to modern art. The contributors addressed not only analytical investigation into changes in painting materials, but also methods of assessing colour change, lighting paintings, alternative methods of display, and different approaches to the restoration of paintings whose colour and tonality have shifted.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Fading, darkening, browning, blanching: a review of our current understanding of colour change and its consequences in old master paintings / Marika Spring -- Colour change and restoration / Larry Keith -- Colour Changes due to the Fading of Prussian Blue in Danish Golden Age Paintings / Troels Filtenborg, David Buti, Anna Vila, Jørgen Wadum -- "Paintings fade like flowers": colour change in paintings by Vincent van Gogh / Ella Hendriks -- Colour change and modern paints; an overview / Bronwyn Ormsby and Judith Lee -- Non-Invasive Colour Restoration of Mark Rothko's Harvard Murals Using Light from a Digital Projector / Jens Stenger, Narayan Khandekar, Ramesh Raskar, Santiago Cuellar, Ankit Mohan, Rudolf Gschwind, Mary Schneider Enriquez, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Christina Rosenberger -- Microfading: a useful tool for paintings conservators? / Joyce H. Townsend -- An Introduction to the Measurement and Comparison of Light Sources used Within Cultural Heritage / Joseph Padfield -- Lost Purples: Detection, Composition and Reconstruction: Re-discovering the Appearance and Contemporary Resonance of Purple Paint in Tudor and Stuart Portraits / Caroline Rae, Courtauld Institute of Art ; Libby Sheldon, University College London -- Choosing colour; the reconstruction of green textiles in The National Synod by Pouwel Weyts / Johanneke Verhave and Lidwien Speleers -- Vivid Colours in the Golden Room: An educated but tentative reconstruction of an ensemble by Pellegrini in the Mauritshuis / Carol Pottasch, Sabrina Meloni, Ivo Hoekstra, Margriet van Eikema Hommes, Ralph Haswell -- Investigating surface phenomena in paints and paintings by Edvard Munch (1863−1944) - in the context of the artist's painting materials / Jin Strand Ferrer, Alyssa Hull and Terje Syversen.

The papers in this volume were presented at the Icon Publishing Group conference 'Appearance and Reality: Examining Colour Change in Paintings' which attempted to present an overview of the current state of research related to colour change in paintings, ranging from Old Masters to modern art. The contributors addressed not only analytical investigation into changes in painting materials, but also methods of assessing colour change, lighting paintings, alternative methods of display, and different approaches to the restoration of paintings whose colour and tonality have shifted.