Pigment Compendium

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

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136373923
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/10/2008
Series:	Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	960
File size:	25 MB
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About the Author

Nicholas Eastaugh

Table of Contents

Introductory essays
Pigments in colour order, including photographs, optical analysis, summary, references
Dictionary of Historical Pigments
Glossary/Synonyms
Tables