Development of a high resolution topography and colour scannner: Applied to the craquelure pattern of paintings

Investigating palettes used in the painting of Rembrandt’s Man with the red baret using X-ray fluorescence scanning and t-distributed stochastic neighbour embedding

It is assumed that 17th century paintings were painted by a very systematic approach which involved the use of very specific palettes. For every pictorial unit, such a skin, a very specific palette was created. In this case the palette would then only be used to paint the skin and nothing else. The result is that for each pictorial unit a...

Digital Colour Reconstruction of the Background of The Jewish Bride: Reconstruction of Smalt and Yellow Lake in the background of The Jewish Bride by Rembrandt

Rembrandt was a unique painter of his era, and one of his most outstanding pieces is The Jewish Bride. He mastered the art of manipulating pigments to create unique paint mixtures and textures. This can be seen in his painting, The Jewish Bride.<br/>In the background of The Jewish Bride, Rembrandt mixed five pigments together: bone black, red...