Revue Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

The contribution of gas chromatography to the resynthesis of the post-Byzantine artist’s technique

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Thursday 15 April 2010, by Icon Network





Eleni Kouloumpi
Conservation Department, National Gallery–Alexandros Soutzos Museum, 1 Michalacopoulou Street, 11601 Athens, Greece

Graham Lawson
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, Hawthorn Building, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

Vassilios Pavlidis
School of Allied Health Sciences, De Montfort University, Hawthorn Building, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

Abstract

Gas chromatographic analysis of ethyl chloroformate derivatives of samples taken from the paint layers of post-Byzantine panel paintings permitted the successful characterisation of the different binding media used in them. This paper describes an analytical study of various post-Byzantine binding media such as egg yolk and egg/oil emulsion, using gas chromatography.

Full article

http://www.springerlink.com/content/x3320567t7318682/