Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary and Optical Microscopy of Historical Pigments (Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology) - Hardcover

Eastaugh, Nicholas; Walsh, Valentine; Chaplin, Tracey; Siddall, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750689803 ISBN 13: 9780750689809

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

This is an essential purchase for all painting conservators and conservation scientists dealing with paintings and painted objects. It provides the first definitive manual dedicated to optical microscopy of historical pigments.

Illustrated throughout with full colour images reproduced to the highest possible quality, this book is based on years of painstaking research into the visual and optical properties of pigments.

Now combined with the Pigment Dictionary, the most thorough reference to pigment names and synonyms avaiable, the Pigment Compendium is a major addition to the study and understanding of historic pigments.

About this title

Product Description

A manual dedicated to optical microscopy of historical pigments. It features full colour images. It features full colour images of over 350 pigments for accurate identification and is a cross-referenced dictionary of pigments names. It is intended as a reference for both painting conservators and conservation scientists.

About the Author

Painting conservator, with her own private conservation business. Also a visiting lecturer for Sotheby's Fine Art Course, Guildhall University, University of Northumbria, Croatian State Institute for Conservation and ICCROM.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0750689803
• ISBN 13: 9780750689809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 968