This is an essential purchase for all painting conservators and conservation scientists dealing with paintings and painted objects. It provides the first definitive manual dedicated to optical microscopy of historical pigments.

Illustrated throughout with full-color images reproduced to the highest possible quality, this book is based on years of painstaking research into the visual and optical properties of pigments.

Now combined with the Pigment Dictionary, the most thorough reference to pigment names and synonyms available, the Pigment Compendium is a major addition to the study and understanding of historic pigments.

This book is a comprehensive resource that will prove invaluable in the field, an absolutely "must-have" book for any engineer or technician involved in conservation and museology.

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Authors: Nicholas Eastaugh, Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, Ruth Siddall

ISBN: 9780750689809

Edition: 2008

Publisher: Taylor Elsevier Ltd

Series: Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology