This is an essential purchase for all painting conservators and conservation scientists dealing with paintings and painted objects. It provides the first definitive manual dedicated to optical microscopy of historical pigments.Illustrated throughout with full colour images reproduced to the highest possible quality, this book is based on years of painstaking research into the visual and optical properties of pigments.Groundbreaking and comprehensive, the Pigment Compendium is a major addition to the study and understanding of historic pigments.
- ISBN13 9781136373794
- Publish Date 17 June 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
- Publish Status Permanently Withdrawn
- Out of Print 20 July 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format eBook
- Pages 456
- Language English