Revue Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
The contribution of gas chromatography to the resynthesis of the post-Byzantine artist’s technique
Thursday 15 April 2010, by Icon Network
Eleni Kouloumpi
Conservation Department, National Gallery–Alexandros Soutzos Museum, 1 Michalacopoulou Street, 11601 Athens, Greece
Graham Lawson
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University, Hawthorn Building, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
Vassilios Pavlidis
School of Allied Health Sciences, De Montfort University, Hawthorn Building, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
Abstract
Gas chromatographic analysis of ethyl chloroformate derivatives of samples taken from the paint layers of post-Byzantine panel paintings permitted the successful characterisation of the different binding media used in them. This paper describes an analytical study of various post-Byzantine binding media such as egg yolk and egg/oil emulsion, using gas chromatography.