Project

Archaeometrical Study of the ghent altarpiece

Code
01GB0313
Duration
01 January 2013 → 31 October 2018
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Conservation-restoration science
Keywords
Jan and hubert van eycke Binding medium analysis Technical examination Image processing Ghent Altarpiece Early netherlandisch painting Pigment analysis
 
Project description

The Ghent Altarpiece, painted by Jan and Hubert Van Eyck (1432) will be examined from a technical point of view. The investigations Support the restoration campaign, but will also lead to new insights about the creation of the work. Binding media, varnishes and pigments are studied with gasschromatography – mass-spectrometry, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence, total-reflection x-ray fluorescence, X-ray diffraction and a multispectral camera is used for image analysis.