ATSR Publication 1
Art of the Past - Sources and Reconstructions
Mark Clarke, Joyce H. Townsend and Ad Stijnman (editors)
London: Archetype Publications
2005
ISBN 1-904982-01-8 £37.50 / $65.00
Paperback
156 Pages
In October 2004 the Art Technological Source Research study group held a highly successful symposium at the Instituut Collectie Nederland, Amsterdam: Approaching the Art of the Past: Sources & Reconstructions.
Recipe books, treatises and manuals on artists' materials, tools and methods are of fundamental importance for an understanding of how art objects were made. Historically accurate reconstructions on the basis of these sources provide insight into the original appearance of an object, as well as workshop practices, and provide models for understanding material degradation. The interpretation of artists' intent rests on this kind of basic knowledge. For example: Van Gogh never intended the blossoms in his series of orchard paintings (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) to appear quite as pale as they look today. How would they have looked originally? The recipe sources and reconstructions may answer this and help us understand what has happened.
The symposium was held to discuss the role of source research and the use of reconstructions in the emerging field of art technological research.
Table of contents
Forward - Henriette van der Linden
Preface - Alberto de Tagle
Introduction - Ad Stijnman and Mark Clarke
Chairman's remarks - Arie Wallert
An introduction to source research
Ad Stijnman
Reconstruction research, some cases and their contexts
Ernst van de Wetering
Blue and green, understanding historical recipes and phenomena on old master paintings
Margriet van Eikema Hommes
The Cologne database for Medieval painting materials and reconstruction
Doris Oltrogge
Levels of reconstruction of black iron gall inks for the InkCor project
Ad Stijnman
The value of accurate reconstructions to the art historian
Lorne Campbell
Historically accurate oil painting reconstructions for the De Mayerne Project
Leslie Carlyle
Cobalt blue, emerald green and rose madder in copal-based media used by the Pre-Raphaelites
Joyce Townsend
Reconstructions of French 19th-century red lake pigments for the Red Lake Project
Jo Kirby
When glass is made of plastic: restoration of the model of the 'Pavillon Saint-Gobain' for the international exhibition of 1937
Olivier Béringuer
ArTeS database
Hayo de Boer
Inventory of a pharmacy in Kolberg
Andreas Burmester
Page-Image Recipe Databases
Mark Clarke and Leslie Carlyle
16th century portrait miniatures
Alan Derbyshire, Nick Frayling, Timea Tallian
Computer reconstruction of the yellow cloak of the ÔGirl at the VirginalsÕ by Vermeer
Joris Dik, Paul van Alkemade, Valerie Sivel, Jan van der Lubbe, Yuval Garini
Sources and preparatory drawing in 15th-19th century Byzantine iconography
Vaios Ganitis, Ekaterina Talarou
3D Digital Visualisation and Virtual Restoration of Polychrome Sculpture
Angie Geary
Whistler's Correspondence: an artist in the studios
Erma Hermens, Margaret MacDonald
Reconstruction of recipes for flesh colours in mediaeval artist manuals
Kathrin Kinseher
Reconstruction of the one of Durer's drawing machines
Aurélie Nicolaus, William Whitney
Smalt glazes on silver leaf gildings of baroque and rococo polychromy in southern Germany
Mark Richter
(In)stability of pigment mixtures described in artist manuals
Elzbieta Szmit-Naud
Import of European painting materials in Havana, Cuba, in the 17th and 18th century
Alberto de Tagle
Chrozophora tinctoria : mediaeval colourant in the seventeenth century
Arie Wallert
Exploring Rembrandt's painting materials and techniques: Rembrandt and burnt plate oil
Phoebe Dent Weil & Sarah Belchetz-Swenson
Imitating ultramarine: artist's economies reconstructed
Sally Woodcock & Libby Sheldon
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