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Chemistry World
September 7, 2011
Ned Stafford |
Analytical Techniques Employed in Art Forgery Case The trial of four people accused of running one of the biggest art forgery rings in post-war Germany has begun, with prosecutors expected to rely heavily on science-based testimony to make their case.   |
Chemistry World
October 28, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Van Gogh's Sunflowers may be wilting in the sun His famed series of Sunflowers paintings may themselves be fading as an international group of scientists has found evidence that a yellow pigment Van Gogh used is changing chemically under sunlight. |
Chemistry World
February 15, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Raman reveals Renoir's true colours Scientists have used Raman spectroscopy to show the original colors of a Renoir painting. By identifying a red dye that had been degraded by light they were able to digitally restore a faded background to its former glory. |
Chemistry World
September 4, 2012
Josh Howgego |
Helping hand for Van Gogh conservators Art conservators have received a helping hand from chemists in dealing with a mysterious grey crust appearing on a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. |
Reason
August 2002
Charles Paul Freund |
Traces of Genius Is art sullied by technology? |
Chemistry World
October 2, 2015
Paul Brack |
Refreshing Van Gogh's faded flowers Conservators at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands are working with scientists at AkzoNobel to reverse the effects of time, and reveal Van Gogh's paintings as they appeared when he first painted them. |
Chemistry World
September 15, 2009
Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay |
Renaissance artworks analysed Researchers have combined two ion-beam analysis techniques to obtain more detailed information about the composition of paints used in Renaissance works of art. |
AskMen.com
June 25, 2003
William Sutton |
How To: Become An Art Connoisseur A handy little guide to painting, from the Renaissance to the Postmodern Age |
Chemistry World
September 4, 2014
Hayley Simon |
Lead 'soaps' behind iconic artwork damage uncovered Lead stannate, Pb 2SnO 4, has been identified as the culprit responsible for disfiguring masterpieces by Rembrandt, John Singer Sargent and Johannes Vermeer. |
Salon.com
August 14, 2000
Barry Raine |
The one-eared bandit Big bucks drive the van Gogh accessory business. |
Chemistry World
November 6, 2014
Catherine Emma Nicholson |
Science and art: the painted surface This volume shows a global solution to a long-discussed problem: how to get scientists, art historians and conservators working together. |
Chemistry World
June 19, 2014 |
The colorful science Chemists and artists have been inspiring each other to more colorful heights for centuries. Philip Ball traces the development of paints and pigments. |
Wired
July 20, 2009
Julian Smith |
Protect and Preserve: Mobile Art-Conservation Van Helps Save Treasures A team of art conservators have packed their arsenal of high tech gear into a van to minimize moving precious works of art for restoration. |
AskMen.com
July 2, 2003
William Sutton |
How To: Become An Art Connoisseur - Part II Find out who's responsible for defacing the Mona Lisa, who was seeing spots, who liked canned soup a little too much, and more. |
Chemistry World
February 21, 2013
Jon Cartwright |
Synthetic ultramarine's recipe revealed Camille Pissarro's The Cote des Boeufs, Claude Monet's Gare Saint-Lazare and Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Les Parapluies all have one chemical constituent in common: synthetic ultramarine. |
Salon.com
October 16, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Hunting Nazi art online Coming to an Internet portal near you: Art treasures seized by Hitler's minions in World War II. American museums now think that the Web can help in their attempt to uncover the Nazi loot that may still be hanging on their walls. |
Chemistry World
April 3, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Historic Sunset Regained US chemists are racing against time to recreate sunsets which have disappeared from the watercolors of American painter Winslow Homer. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2010
Willie D. Jones |
A New Algorithm to Attack Art Fraud Sparse-coding technique spots fakes. Mathematicians at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H., may have the answer. They recently presented a computer-based statistical analysis technique which they say will help art historians and conservators discover even the most skilled forgery. |
Searcher
September 2001
Mary Colette Wallace |
The Science and Art of Online Research in the Fine Arts: A Process Approach The optimum process requires understanding the function of the needed and given information before taking action... |
Chemistry World
October 2, 2015
Paul Brack |
Egyptian blue: more than just a color The blue pigment was first used by Egyptian artist 2600 BC. Today it has possible uses in security inks or for biomedical imaging. |
Smithsonian
April 2007
Courtney Jordan |
Artist on the Rise Contemporary artist Maggie Michael shakes up abstract painting by giving control a chance. |
Searcher
September 2004
Dave Mattison |
Looking for Good Art: Web Resources and Image Databases, Part 1 Art images on the Web represent one of the first and last frontiers in terms of pools of knowledge: millions of historic art images served and more to come. Here are links to some of the best Web sites. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2004
David Mattison |
Looking for Good Art Part 3: Glorious National Collections With an unimaginable wealth of art digitally accessible and preserved for us and future generations by art history institutions outside the U.S., the international Web of the Western art world is truly one of the most remarkable achievements of our digital age. Here links to directories and guides. |
