Clay and alunite-rich materials in painting grounds of prominent Italian masters – Caravaggio and Mattia Preti
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60461446%3A_____%2F20%3AN0000002" target="_blank" >RIV/60461446:_____/20:N0000002 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/61388980:_____/20:00518621 RIV/60461446:_____/20:N0000048 RIV/00216208:11310/20:10413738
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169131719304703" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169131719304703</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clay.2019.105412" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.clay.2019.105412</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Clay and alunite-rich materials in painting grounds of prominent Italian masters – Caravaggio and Mattia Preti
Original language description
Recently, the fine arts' research is increasingly carried out by non-invasive techniques, which do not require any sampling. However, some questions cannot be answered in this way. A typical example is the provenance analysis of the natural materials used in historical paintings. Another question is how much the provenance of the material is related to the provenance of the artwork itself (because of trade with pigments, painters' migration and their artistic preferences). Often, only painter's preference and intention are mentioned, and not economic factors and regional availability of the raw material. This is also the case of clay-based preparatory layers (grounds) on Caravaggio's paintings. In order to prove a connection of the ground composition with the place of the painting's creation, the painting grounds used by two prominent Baroque Masters Caravaggio and Mattia Preti have been investigated using X-ray powder micro-diffraction and Fourier transform infrared micro-spectroscopy in combination with micro-palaentological analysis. It was found that grounds applied by the same painter, but in two closely related regions – Italy and Malta, differ. While pottery clays were used in Italy, weathered Globigerina limestones were applied in Malta in combination with alunite-hematite material. It is the first time ever that such material has been identified as a main component in painting grounds.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10504 - Mineralogy
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-25687S" target="_blank" >GA17-25687S: Provenance analysis of Italian fine art by advanced approaches of geosciences and archaeometry</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Applied Clay Science
ISSN
0169-1317
e-ISSN
1872-9053
Volume of the periodical
185
Issue of the periodical within the volume
FEB 2020
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000510399600005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85076631853