Fading into the background: the dark space surrounding Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring

The background of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665, Mauritshuis) has, until recently, been interpreted as a flat dark space. The painting was examined in 2018 as part of the research project The Girl in the Spotlight using a combination of micro- and macro-scale analytical techniques. Th...

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Published in:	Heritage science Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 1 - 19
Main Authors:	Vandivere, Abbie, van Loon, Annelies, Callewaert, Tom, Haswell, Ralph, Proaño Gaibor, Art Ness, van Keulen, Henk, Leonhardt, Emilien, Dik, Joris
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cham Springer International Publishing 16.09.2019 Springer Nature B.V SpringerOpen
Subjects:	17th century Background Charcoal Chemistry and Materials Science Chromatography Flat surfaces Girls Glaze Imaging techniques Indigo Infrared imaging Materials Science Microscopy Optical Coherence Tomography Research Article Stratigraphy The Girl in the Spotlight: A technical re-examination of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring Visual effects Weld X-ray fluorescence Macroscopic X-ray fluorescence imaging Background Optical coherence tomography Focused ion beam-scanning transmission electron microscopy Liquid chromatography Glaze Indigo 17th century Weld
ISSN:	2050-7445, 2050-7445
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