The papers in this volume, presented at the Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in Brussels in November 2012, focus on major transformations of works of art, such as updates of format, function, iconography or appearance and their documentation by historical documentary sources. They cover a wide range of art, periods, sources and approaches, from Dioscorides to contemporary installations: Tinguely's explosive Homage to New York; the evolution and transformation of harpsichords in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the art of anatomical wax models in Spain and neo-Gothic polychromies. The skilful combination of source research with experimental reconstruction and analysis is illustrated in studies of anthocyanin colorants in medieval European illuminators' workshops, and of tempera paint around 1900. Research on artists' materials such as vermilion and zinc white, refers to patents, inventories, diaries and chronicles. The interpretation and transmission of sources in central to several papers. Innovative databases of art technological sources are also presented.
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Foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Dioscorides as an art technological source - Mark Clarke
2. Academy and workshop: medieval transmission of late antique knowledge - Mark Clarke and Arie Wallert
3. An elusive colorant: availability, preparation and use of anthocyanin colorants in European medieval illuminators’ workshops - Sylvie Neven and Jana Sanyova
4. Paint it red: vermilion manufacture in the Middle Ages - Stefanos Kroustallis and Rocio Bruquetas
5. Medieval sculptures re-polychromed and re-gilded in the nineteenth century by Adrien Hubert Bressers - Delphine Steyaert
6. 'This they use in Madrid': the ground layer in paintings on canvas in 17th-century Madrid - Maite Jover de Celis and Dolores Gayo
7. Van Dyck and de Mayerne: a cautionary note regarding the manuscript - Rica Jones
8. Materials for painting and gilding used in the Benedictine community of Portugal 1638-1822: other times, other ways - Agnès Le Gac, Paulo Oliveira, Isabel Dias Costa and Maria João Dias Costa
9. Evolutions and transformations of harpsichords in France in the 17th and 18th centuries - Christine Laloue and Jean-Philippe Echard
10. Manufacturing techniques and the art of wax modelling: from the sculptor's studio to the anatomical workshop - Alicia Sánchez Ortiz and Sandra Micó Boró
11. Combining different types of sources for a better understanding of tempera painting around 1900 - Patrick Dietemann and Wibke Neugebauer
12. Interpretation of documentary sources for the industrial preparation of ‘zinc white’ in the 19th century - Nicholas Eastaugh, Jilleen Nadolny and Weronika Swiech
13. Hans Heysen’s art materials: an investigation into suppliers, knowledge and choice - Rosemary Diana Heysen and Nicole Andrea Tse
14. Jean Tinguely’s script for Homage to New York (1960) - Reinhard Bek and Christine Frohnert
15. Recent publications on art technological source research - Ad Stijnman
16. ‘Colour ConText’: a database on colour practice and colour knowledge in pre-modern Europe - Sylvie Neven, Karin Leonhard and Sven Dupré
17. Four paintings from St. Jerome's College, Coimbra, Portugal: conservation, technique and treatises - Vanessa Antunes, Mercês Lorena, Vítor Serrão, Virgínia Gomes, Maria José Oliveira, Luís Dias, António Candeias, Ana Isabel Seruya and João Coroado
18. Glass and parchment with a view: oil paint and the imitation of (stained) glass windows 1400-1600 - Marjolijn Bol, Henk de Groot and Arie Wallert
19. Oil-Pinaceae resin varnish recipes in 15th-18th-century written sources - Jean-Philippe Echard and Valérie Malecki
20. ‘A substance that serves all paints’: interpreting a technical recipe from Sloane 345 - Indra Kneepkens, Ronald de Jongh and Arie Wallert
21. The Town: a sparkling 17th-century canvas painting - Anne Apalnes Ørnhøi
22. Transformed altarpieces in the age of Baroque in northern Italy - Orso-Maria Piavento
23. Craftsmen and gentlemen - Hermann den Otter
24. Technical examination of Daubigny’s Cliffs at Villerville-sur-mer, or new light on the history of Impressionism - René Boitelle and Alan Phenix
25. The working process of Francis Bacon: evidence from his studio, artworks and slashed canvases - Elke Cwiertnia, Justin Perry, Brian Singer and Joyce H.Townsend
26. Slow Actions: transformative approach to documenting moving image installations - Stephanie Sarah Lauke
27. Dynamic art technological sources for contemporary work: the artist interview and the installation itself - Sanneke Stigter
