Sources on art technology : back to basics : proceedings of the sixth symposium of the ICOM-CC Working Group for Art Technological Source Research, held at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 16-17 June 2014 / edited by Sigrid Eyb-Green, Joyce H. Townsend, Kathrin Pilz, Stefanos Kroustallis and Idelette van Leeuwen.

Includes bibliographical references.

The painter's workshop as seen by Stradanus / Jan Piet Filedt Kok -- Back to basics: what do we do with art technological sources once we have found them? / William Whitney -- Back to the text: artists' recipe books as historical sources for research into art technology / Sylvie Neven -- Artists' treatises and recipe books: a discussion of authors, readers and users / Cristiana Pasqualetti -- Light-sensitive pigments discussed in early sources on photochemical imaging processes / Albrecht Pohlmann -- Eilido colours: sources relating to the introduction of coal-tar colours and their controversial reception in the early 20th century / Christoph Steuer -- Making paint in the 20th century: the Talens Archive / Bert Klein Ovink -- Recipes for deceit: documentary sources for the production of paintings forgeries from 1300 to 1900 / Jilleen Nadolny -- What's wrong with Thompson's Cennini? / Mark Clarke -- Compendium de coloribus collectum: a compendium of recipes in Palatine Ms. 981 of the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence / Federica Ferla -- Pictoria, sculptoria et quae subaltenarum artium: is the de Mayerne manuscript unified or heterogeneous? / Cecile Parmentier -- Breaking the mould: a history of sand mould casting in Western Europe based on early written sources / Tonny P.C. Beentjes -- Interpreting lac dye in medieval written sources: new knowledge from the reconstruction of recipes relating to illuminations in Portuguese manuscripts / Maria Joao Melo -- 'To keep the colours fresh, alive and bright': the influence of preparatory layers on the durability of oil painting, according to North West European recipe books 1550-1900 / Maartje Stols-Witlox -- The Jesuit contribution to written art technological sources in the 17th and 18th centuries / Corinna Gramatke -- Liotard, Stoupan and the colours available to 18th-century European artists / Leila Sauvage -- Forming or transformation: the technology of horn working in sources, in practice and compared to objects / Christoph Krekel -- Shorter papers from poster presentations -- Unpublished 17th-century documents relevant to the production of artists' pigments / Arie Wallert -- De vitri coloribus: a treatise on glass or pottery working and colouring / Paola Travaglio -- Documentation of European recipes for glue lining paste / Rita Gil -- Zinc vitriol in late medieval oil painting: a preliminary study using reconstructions / Arie Wallert -- From collaboration to competition: the introduction of Heinrich Ludwig's petroleum oil paints / Kathrin Kinseher -- The use of documentary sources for identifying suppliers of painting materials in 19th-century Portugal / Rita Macedo -- Reconsidering the use of copper resinate, from painting on canvas and panel to painting on glass and metal / Claudio Seccaroni -- Winsor & Newton's 19th-century manufacture of yellow chromate-based pigments / Maria Joao Melo -- Painting techniques of Jean Cousin the Elder and Younger in the light of a French manuscript / Estelle Itie -- Soehnee Freres retouching varnish and American painters / Gay Myers -- The trade in chalk as an artists' material in early modern Europe / Marieken van den Bichelaer -- The Royal Danish Colour Chamber and the 17th-century trade in artists' materials / Anne Haack. Christensen -- (Re)constructed harmony: the replication of a Renaissance viol aided by historical sources / Wolfgang Baatz -- Medieval gilding / Alison Stock

A collection of papers from the 2014 biennial ATSR symposium investigating the uses of source material for historical research and the conservation of art today.