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Science Applied to Modern Mural Painting Studies. Traditional Pigments and Inno...
Gil, Milene; Costa, Mafalda; Valadas, Sara; Cardoso, Ana Margarida; Helvaci, Yigit Zafer; Bhattacharya, Sriradha; Candeias, AntónioThis chapter reports the analytical study carried out on Almada Negreiros’ two working palettes in the public hall of the DN Building in 1939. Both palettes were hidden behind wooden cabinets and discovered in 1991 during conservation works. The first study carried out in 2021 focused on the identification of cadmium pigments. In phase 2, the goal was to extend the research to other colour materials to ascertai...
Italian Influence in a Portuguese Mannerist Painting (Part II): A Matter of Ima...
Melo, Helena Pinheiro de; Cruz, António João; Valadas, Sara; Cardoso, Ana Margarida; Helvaci, Yigit Zafer; Candeias, AntónioThe panel depicting The Descent from the Cross, painted in 1620 by the Portuguese artist Pedro Nunes (1586-1637), shows a clear Italian formal influence. The painter’s colour palette was identified in another paper. The panel is now investigated from a technical perspective, discussing aspects related to the support, preparatory system, and paint layer build-up. The research is based on the visual inspection of...
Italian Influence in a Portuguese Mannerist Painting (Part I): A New Palette wi...
Melo, Helena Pinheiro de; Valadas, Sara; Cruz, António João; Cardoso, Ana Margarida; Miguel, Catarina; Manhita, Ana; Helvaci, Yigit ZaferThe palette used by the Portuguese painter Pedro Nunes (1586–1637) in the large panel depicting The Descent from the Cross (460 × 304 cm) painted in 1620 for Évora’s cathedral was investigated with a combination of the visual inspection of the paint surface and the analysis of the paint layers with microscopic, spectroscopic, and chromatographic techniques. Green earth and an orange artificial arsenic sulphide,...