NINMACH 2017

Session

Keynote speaker 4

13 Oct 2017, 12:35

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

64. Chemical imaging of paintings: X-rays and ions as complementary probes to neutrons

Dr Thomas Calligaro (Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France C2RMF)

13/10/2017, 12:35

Multi-technique approach and complementary techniques

Keynote speaker

Beams of X-rays and, to a lesser extent, ions and neutrons (with the neutron autoradiography technique) have been successfully applied to collect elemental maps of historical paintings. Such probes can notably reveal the pigment distribution within entire paintworks through their elemental fingerprints without contact and in a non-destructive way. The comparison of the recorded images with...