Project

Archaeometrical Study of the ghent altarpiece

Code

01GA0313

Duration

01 January 2013 → 31 October 2018

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Peter Vandenabeele

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Conservation-restoration science

Keywords

Ghent Altarpiece Early netherlandisch painting Pigment analysis Image processing Jan and hubert van eycke Technical examination Binding medium 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.