In the last decades, the working methods of late medieval illuminators have been widely discussed by art historians and codicologists. Non-invasive analyses are able to characterise the painting methods of illuminators as well as investigate artistic collaborations among them. The aim of this study was to characterise the painting palettes and techniques of different artists who illuminated two leaves from an early fourteenth century manuscript. The analyses were carried out with non-invasive and portable techniques such as Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (ED-XRF) spectrometry, Fiber Optics Reflectance Spectroscopy (FORS) and Raman spectroscopy. The paper highlights the differences among three rich and varied palettes and examines the pigments ultramarine, azurite, verdigris, earths, orpiment, red lead, vermillion, lead white, yellow lake, indigo, brazilwood and lac, used independently or in mixtures. We have demonstrated the effectiveness of non-invasive analyses as a tool to differentiate hands of artists who have worked on the same page. Furthermore, the comparison with analyses carried out on leaves attributed to the workshop of Pacino di Bonaguida allows to investigate in-depth the production of the main illuminators active in Florence at the dawn of the Renaissance.

Revealing artists’ collaboration in a 14th century manuscript by non-invasive analyses / Perino, M.; Pronti, L.; Di Forti, L. G.; Romani, M.; Taverna, C.; Massolo, L.; Manzari, F.; Cestelli-Guidi, M.; Nucara, A.; Felici, A. C.. - In: MINERALS. - ISSN 2075-163X. - 11:7(2021), p. 771. [10.3390/min11070771]

Revealing artists’ collaboration in a 14th century manuscript by non-invasive analyses

Perino M.
Primo
Membro del Collaboration Group
;
Taverna C.
Membro del Collaboration Group
;
Manzari F.
Membro del Collaboration Group
;
Nucara A.
Membro del Collaboration Group
;
Felici A. C.
Membro del Collaboration Group
2021

Abstract

In the last decades, the working methods of late medieval illuminators have been widely discussed by art historians and codicologists. Non-invasive analyses are able to characterise the painting methods of illuminators as well as investigate artistic collaborations among them. The aim of this study was to characterise the painting palettes and techniques of different artists who illuminated two leaves from an early fourteenth century manuscript. The analyses were carried out with non-invasive and portable techniques such as Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (ED-XRF) spectrometry, Fiber Optics Reflectance Spectroscopy (FORS) and Raman spectroscopy. The paper highlights the differences among three rich and varied palettes and examines the pigments ultramarine, azurite, verdigris, earths, orpiment, red lead, vermillion, lead white, yellow lake, indigo, brazilwood and lac, used independently or in mixtures. We have demonstrated the effectiveness of non-invasive analyses as a tool to differentiate hands of artists who have worked on the same page. Furthermore, the comparison with analyses carried out on leaves attributed to the workshop of Pacino di Bonaguida allows to investigate in-depth the production of the main illuminators active in Florence at the dawn of the Renaissance.
2021
Azurite; FORS; Illuminated manuscript; Lac; Orpiment; Raman spectroscopy; Ultramarine; Vergaut; Vermillion; XRF
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Revealing artists’ collaboration in a 14th century manuscript by non-invasive analyses / Perino, M.; Pronti, L.; Di Forti, L. G.; Romani, M.; Taverna, C.; Massolo, L.; Manzari, F.; Cestelli-Guidi, M.; Nucara, A.; Felici, A. C.. - In: MINERALS. - ISSN 2075-163X. - 11:7(2021), p. 771. [10.3390/min11070771]
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