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Analyses of paint mediums in 15th-19th century paintings
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Analyses of paint mediums in 15th-19th century paintings
Hi George,
Here is my question for the zoom meeting on Saturday:
A paper in the National Gallery Technical Bulletin (“Analyses of Paint Mediums”, White R et al, National Gallery Technical Bulletin , 1998, Vol. 19, 1998, pp. 74-95) describes analysis of paint samples from 15th – 19th century. It reports that some artists were using “partially heat-bodied oils”, which the authors suggest may have been a mixture of heat bodied and non-heat bodied oils. However, they present findings indicating that in many cases artists (such as Jan Steen, see table page 89) were using only heat-bodied oil as the medium in the samples of the painting tested. How is this possible given how difficult it is to work with 100% heat-bodied oil? Am I misunderstanding something here? Any ideas on how these artists would have worked in this way?
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Hi again,
I think we ran out of time to cover this question at the zoom meeting so if anyone has any thoughts on this I would be interested in their response
Thanks
Richard
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Hi Richard, Did you get a reply to this. I was wondering the same. New member here.
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Hello,
Maybe we should enquire at the next chohorts meeting whether this is the place to post questions ahead of it. I did post one also some weeks ago but it was not addressed at the following meeting either.
All the best,
Marie-Claire
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Thank you!
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