Portable XRF as a valuable device for preliminary in situ pigment investigation of wooden inventory in the Trski Vrh Church in Croatia

Effect of gamma irradiation on Korean traditional multicolored paintwork

“…In the previous study, various methodologies were reported for characterization and structural studies of pigments such as X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF), scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray detection (SEM-EDX), XRD, particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and FT-Raman analysis (Desnica et al, 2008;De Nolf et al, 2006;Darchuk et al, 2010;Webera et al, 1998). In this study, gamma-irradiated pigments were analyzed using XRD.…”

Portable XRF of Archaeological Artifacts: Current Research, Potentials and Limitations

“…Newly invented pigments became available, which were sold already mixed in tubes allowing artists to free themselves from traditional studio practice and to render their subject matter more vividly. Desnica et al (2008) investigated the pigments from the painted wooden inventory of the pilgrimage church of Saint Mary of Jerusalem in Trski Vrh -one of the most beautiful late-baroque sacral ensembles in Croatia. It consists mainly of two painted and gilded layers (the original one from the eighteenth century and a later one from 1903), partly overpainted during periodic conservation treatments in the past.…”

Mobile Spectroscopic Instrumentation in Archaeometry Research

“…Some mobile XRF instruments are designed more for bulk analysis with larger spot sizes in the range of 9-170 mm 2 . 69,71,72 Instruments with smaller spot sizes, some of which are labelled as m-XRF with diameters in the range of 40 mm to 1 mm, 68,[73][74][75][76][77] have been reported for samples requiring finer spatial resolution.…”