Historical and scientific identification of an early XXth century artist pigments’ collection

Abstract

The availability of chemically and colorimetrically exact references on painters’ pigments is very important in order to distinguish the artistic employment of the various materials from their use during conservation treatments. For this purpose it is started a systematic campaign of scientific analyses on an early XX^th century pigments collection belonged to famous florentine restorers, in order to obtain chemical, physical and historical classification of each material. The aim of research is to characterise all pigments in a database periodically uploaded and integrated with new analytical data, by supplying references on the products commercialised between 1850 and 1950 that were largely used for conservation treatments.