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Pigment compendium : a dictionary and optical microscopy of historic pigments / Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, Ruth Siddall.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2008.Edition: New edDescription: x, 958 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9780750689809
  • 0750689803
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Contents:
Pt. 1. Dictionary of Historical Pigments -- Introduction -- Compendium -- Pigment Classification -- References, Dictionary of Historical Pigments -- Pt. 2. Optical Microscopy of Historical Pigments -- Introduction -- Appendix 1. Samples -- Appendix 2. References, Optical Microscopy of Historical Pigments -- Index.
Summary: 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Dictionary of Historical Pigments -- Introduction -- Compendium -- Pigment Classification -- References, Dictionary of Historical Pigments -- Pt. 2. Optical Microscopy of Historical Pigments -- Introduction -- Appendix 1. Samples -- Appendix 2. References, Optical Microscopy of Historical Pigments -- Index.

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.