Early Modern Color Worlds

Baker, Tawrin; Dupré, Sven; Kusukawa, Sachiko; Leonhard, Karin

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“…Whether color could be used as reliable and reproducible descriptive feature of natural history specimens was hotly contested amongst early modern botanists, naturalists, and artists [2]. Reproducing the color of natural phenomena, especially in the context of expeditions like Merian's, challenged naturalists to develop means to systematize their terms and observations [3] and demanded expertise in art, craft and science, making the valence and materiality of early modern color a rich and active area of research for historians of art and science [4]. Merian herself chose to include color as a significant feature of insects' descriptions.…”

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Multi-Modal, Non-Invasive Investigation of Modern Colorants on Three Early Modern Prints by Maria Sibylla Merian

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Northwestern University’s Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections owns three hand-colored copperplate engravings that once belonged to an edition of Matamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium by artist-naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717). Because early modern prints are often colored by early modern readers, or modern collectors, it was initially unclear whether the coloring on these prints should be attributed to the print maker, to subsequent owners or collectors, or to an art dealer. Such ambiguities posed challenges for the interpretation of these prints by art historians. Therefore, the prints underwent multi-modal, non-invasive technical analysis to assess the date and material composition of the prints’ coloring. The work combined several different non-invasive analytical techniques: hyperspectral imaging (HSI), macro X-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF) mapping, surface normal mapping with photometric stereo, visible light photography, and visual comparative art historical analysis. As a result, the prints and paper were attributed to a late eighteenth-century posthumous edition of Merian’s work while the colorants were dated to the early twentieth century. This information enables more thorough contextualization of these prints in their use as teaching and research tools in the University collection.

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Scrutinizing Ecce Homo: European or Indian painting? Assessment by Raman and complementary spectroscopic techniques

Antunes

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Candeias

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J Raman Spectroscopy

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This work intends to characterize producing techniques and materials used in Ecce Homo painting (P1) from the beginning of the 17th century, made at the time of Iberian Union government in Goa, which belongs to Museum of Christian Art at Old Goa (India). Determination of the manufacturing processes, material characterization of ground/priming layer, and pigment layers were the scopes of this study. Knowledge of Goan painting materials at this epoch is an almost unknownissue. For this study, cross sections were analyzed by micro-Raman spectroscopy to identify core materials, complemented to other techniques: optical microscopy, Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence, scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive spectroscopy, and micro-Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy. Paintings were also examined by infrared reflectography.By scrutinizing this painting, scientific confirmation on materials and technique was achieved, and the comparison with two other paintings, one Goan (P2) and another Portuguese (P3), from the same period and under the same theme was established. Results allowed identification and origin of paintings under study, considered as a Goan feature by art history, bringing also new data for painting conservation decision making.

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Renaissance Dress, Cultures of Making, and the Period Eye

Rublack

2016

West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Ma

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Early Modern Color Worlds

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Multi-Modal, Non-Invasive Investigation of Modern Colorants on Three Early Modern Prints by Maria Sibylla Merian

Multi-Modal, Non-Invasive Investigation of Modern Colorants on Three Early Modern Prints by Maria Sibylla Merian

Scrutinizing Ecce Homo: European or Indian painting? Assessment by Raman and complementary spectroscopic techniques

Renaissance Dress, Cultures of Making, and the Period Eye

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