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.Groundbreaking and comprehensive, the Pigment Compendium is a major addition to the study and understanding of historic pigments.
Pages
451
Format
ebook
Publisher
Society for Neuroscience
Release
January 31, 2005
ISBN
0080454577
ISBN 13
9780080454573
Pigment Compendium: Optical Microscopy of Historical Pigments
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.Groundbreaking and comprehensive, the Pigment Compendium is a major addition to the study and understanding of historic pigments.