Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice: Preprints of a Symposium, University of Leiden, the Netherlands, 26–29 June 1995

Bridging the fields
of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the
principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical
Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of
Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The
symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists,
and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at
the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research
Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam.

Twenty-five contributors representing
museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent
research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and
polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and
scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical
sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in
historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and
Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English
churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color
plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to
the 20th century.