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Adhesives are essential components of everyday life and have been for thousands of years. The history of adhesives begins with a stone tool covered in birch tar found at Campitello Quarry, Italy, dating to around 200,000 years ago. This find demonstrated the use of adhesives by N ...
This dissertation develops intrinsic approaches to learning and computing on curved surfaces. Specifically, we work on three tasks: analyzing 3D shapes using convolutional neural networks (CNNs), solving linear systems on curved surfaces, and recovering appearance properties from ...
The goal of this project was to simulate the colour change over time of Girl with a Pearl Earring from Johannes Vermeer. Using art history knowledge and computational methods this was proven to be possible. The combination of these methods is unique and promising.

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Hyperspectral techniques have found application for the investigation of objects and samples in many scientific fields. Data evaluation approaches commonly either process them as stacks of randomly ordered spectra or as flat images. This thesis aims at combining both, lateral and ...
The scientific analysis of historical paintings has been traditionally restricted to the analysis of paint cross-section samples. This invasive method provides extensive information but is inherently limited in scope due to the extreme heterogeneity of paintings. In the last deca ...
A novel combination of analytical techniques for measuring optical properties of glaze and paint as input for computer modelling is used to investigate the influence of the green glaze layer present on top of the black underpainting in the background of Girl with a Pearl Earring. ...

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Scanning and printing a painting's appearance

The appearance of a painting cannot solely be described by the depiction that it presents to the viewer. When viewing the artifact in real life, we find that the painted surface is in effect a three-dimensional landscape of paint. Paintings, “moveable, largely two-dimensional ima ...
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 an ...

Scientific investigation of paintings has been facilitated by the development of advanced non-de\-struc\-tive imaging methods. Characterization of painting stratigraphy traditionally requires extraction of small paint samples, thereby limiting its use to a few locations on ...

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.
In the background of The Jewis ...

Artefact biography 2.0

The information value of corroded archaeological bronzes

The different phases in the life of archaeological objects can be described by artefact biography. This dissertation defines an updated version: artefact biography 2.0, and the life phases of Early Iron Age bronze studs from Oss-Zevenbergen, the Netherlands, are elaborated. Throu ...

Technical studies of Renaissance bronzes

The use of neutron imaging and time-of-flight neutron diffraction in the studies of the manufacture and determination of historical copper objects and alloys