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- Title
Paint, Colour, and Style: The Contribution of Minerals to the Palette of the Descent from the Cross, Attributed to the Portuguese Painter Francisco João (act. 1558–1595).
- Authors
Melo, Helena P.; Cruz, António João; Sanyova, Jana; Valadas, Sara; Cardoso, Ana Margarida
- Abstract
The paint materials and techniques of The Descent from Cross, a panel painting attributed to the Portuguese painter Francisco João (act. 1558–1595), were investigated with a combination of visible, ultraviolet, and infrared imaging and an analysis of paint samples with microscopic, spectroscopic, and chromatographic techniques. The colour palette is composed of lead white, lead–tin yellow, minium, vermilion, ochres of different colours, umber, smalt, azurite, verdigris, charcoal black, and a variety of different-coloured red lakes made of brazilwood and cochineal. An oil-based medium was identified. The characterisation of the pigment mixtures, paint build-up, and particular paint handling techniques enabled us to determine their role in the style and formal appearance of this painting and to discuss Portuguese painting practices in the larger context of 16th-century European painting. Mineral and elemental associations or impurities in the blue pigments, as well as degradation issues affecting minium, and smalt paints were reported. In particular, the deterioration of the glass matrix in some of the smalt particles mixed in lead white paint raises special concern.
- Subjects
PORTUGAL; PALETTE (Color range); NATIVE element minerals; PAINT; COLOR; MINERALS; PAINT materials; PANEL painting
- Publication
Minerals (2075-163X), 2023, Vol 13, Issue 9, p1182
- ISSN
2075-163X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/min13091182