Inside Back Cover: Unraveling the Composition of Rembrandt's Impasto through the Identification of Unusual Plumbonacrite by Multimodal X‐ray Diffraction Analysis (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 17/2019)

Rembrandt is renowned for his impasto, a paint with outstanding rheological properties, the exact formulation of which has remained a mystery. In their Communication on page 5619 ff., V. Gonzalez et al. used synchrotron X‐ray diffraction to investigate microscopic samples from Rembrandt masterpieces...

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Published in:	Angewandte Chemie International Edition Vol. 58; no. 17; p. 5771
Main Authors:	Gonzalez, Victor, Cotte, Marine, Wallez, Gilles, van Loon, Annelies, de Nolf, Wout, Eveno, Myriam, Keune, Katrien, Noble, Petria, Dik, Joris
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	16.04.2019
Subjects:	impasto lead pigments Rembrandt synchrotron x-ray diffraction
ISSN:	1433-7851, 1521-3773
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Summary:	Rembrandt is renowned for his impasto, a paint with outstanding rheological properties, the exact formulation of which has remained a mystery. In their Communication on page 5619 ff., V. Gonzalez et al. used synchrotron X‐ray diffraction to investigate microscopic samples from Rembrandt masterpieces; a rare lead compound, plumbonacrite (Pb5(CO3)3O(OH)2), was detected in the impasto. This constitutes the fingerprint of Rembrandt's recipe, shedding light on the Master's pictorial technique.
ISSN:	1433-7851 1521-3773
DOI:	10.1002/anie.201902740