Clay and alunite-rich materials in painting grounds of prominent Italian masters – Caravaggio and Mattia Preti

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61388980%3A_____%2F20%3A00518621" target="_blank" >RIV/61388980:_____/20:00518621 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60461446:_____/20:N0000002 RIV/60461446:_____/20:N0000048 RIV/00216208:11310/20:10413738

Result on the web

<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0306835" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0306835</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>

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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Type

J_imp - 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

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Applied Clay Science

ISSN

0169-1317

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

185

Issue of the periodical within the volume

FEB

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

105412

UT code for WoS article

000510399600005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85076631853