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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.   |
Chemistry World
September 27, 2012
Philip Ball |
Blues standard The identification of a new inorganic blue pigment in 2009 looked promising for artists. Chemists at Oregon State University, US, found that manganese ions produce an intense blue colour, with the prized 'reddish' shade of ultramarine, when they occupy a trigonal bipyramidal site in metal oxides. |
Chemistry World
April 5, 2013
Laura Howes |
More clues to Maya blue The early Maya chemists managed to make pigments that are incredibly stable. The color has lasted longer than the civilization and today's modern chemists have been trying to work out why. |
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
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. |
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. |
Chemistry World
April 25, 2012
Simon Hadlington |
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Illuminates Medieval Art Using infrared spectroscopy researchers discovered that the painter of this manuscript had an idiosyncratic style using pigment binders normally associated with frescoes. |
Chemistry World
June 26, 2014
Philip Ball |
How the Pelican got its hue Pelican books were notable for that shade of blue veering towards turquoise, which chemists will recognize instantly as a copper pigment of some kind. |
Chemistry World
November 12, 2015
Simon Hadlington |
Jurassic pigment structure elucidation tickles chemists pink Chemists in Germany have elucidated the structure of an enigmatic pink pigment found in fossils of an alga that lived on Earth more than 150 million years ago. |
Chemistry World
October 24, 2012 |
Delving deeper in the Hall of the Kings A portable and non-invasive technique to study and characterize pigments in ancient architecture has been developed by scientists in Spain. |
AskMen.com
January 16, 2003
Peter Fueller |
Top 10: Museums Of The World There are thousands of museums around the world, many of which are worth visiting. However, you probably don't want to spend your entire vacation looking through endless collections of paintings and sculptures, created by artists you've never even heard of. You want the famous stuff, right? |
Chemistry World
November 18, 2013
Emily James |
Meat mummies a feast fit for a Pharaoh An important contribution to our knowledge of ancient mummification methods comes from advanced chemical analysis of the ingredients incorporated into organic balms.' |
Chemistry World
September 30, 2015
Wei-lun Toh |
A veneer of Vermeer The woman taken in adultery was thought to have been painted by Johann Vermeer before scientific testing revealed it as a forgery. |
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
May 18, 2006
Michael Gross |
Precious Platinum Photographs According to a chemist and photography expert, a 1904 image of a moonrise over a lake, printed in platinum and then modified with the gum bichromate process, has sold for nearly $3 million at Sotheby's, setting a new price record for any art photograph. |
Smithsonian
April 2007
Andrew Lawler |
Raising Alexandria More than 2,000 years after Alexander the Great founded the city, archaeologists are discovering its fabled remains, from the likely site of Cleopatra's palace to pieces of an astonishing lighthouse that was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. |
Chemistry World
January 14, 2010
Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay |
Cures in ancient Egyptian cosmetics New research suggests ancient Egyptians could have deliberately used lead-based cosmetics to help prevent eye infections. |
Wired
April 2005
Jeff Howe |
Paint by Numbers How a tech whiz kid launched the Artist Pension Trust, a pension fund for artists. |
