A record of the National Gallery's scientific, scholarly and conservation research into artists' materials, practices and techniques. This title is useful reading for conservators, art historians, collectors and curators.
1. Bernardo Daddi's Coronation of the Virgin: The Reunion of Two
Long-Separated Panels, Simona Di Nepi, Ashok Roy and Rachel Billinge.; New
research into the National Gallery's Coronation and the Four Musical Angels
at Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford is fully reported, including pigment
sampling, infrared reflectography, x-radiography, and new iconographic
research.;
2. Tintoretto's Underdrawing for Saint George and the Dragon, Jill
Dunkerton; Tintoretto's canvas was examined using the newly developed SIRIS
digital infrared camera in order to investigate the relationship between the
underdrawing and Tintoretto's well-known study on paper for the figure of the
dead man lying in front of Saint George's horse.;
3. A Boy with a Bird in the
National Gallery: A Titian Puzzle, Paul Joannides and Jill Dunkerton; Earlier
scholars concluded that this work was a later pastiche of Titian, probably
from the seventeenth century. The present authors reassess its status in the
light of sources for the composition and detailed technical examination of
the painting, following its recent cleaning.;
4. Monet's Palette in the
Twentieth Century: Water-Lilies and Irises, Ashok Roy; The author discusses
aspects of the way that Monet's painting materials developed and changed in
the later part of his career and describes the materials and methods of
painting in these two 20th-century works.;
5. The Technology of Eighteenth-
and Nineteenth-Century Red Lake Pigments, Jo Kirby, Marika Spring and
Catherine Higgitt; An account of the expansion in the variety of artists' red
lake pigments in the 18th and 19th centuries, based on scientific and
technological developments, with reference to paintings in the National
Gallery Collection.
