From Byzantine to post-Byzantine art: the painting technique of St Stephen's wall paintings at Meteora, Greece

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2474-2485

  Daniilia, Sister ^a   Minopoulou, Elpida ^a   Andrikopoulos, Konstantinos S ^a,b   Tsakalof, Andreas ^a,c   Bairachtari, Kyriaki ^a,d  

^a The Ormylia Foundation   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^d INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Efflorescence; Egg; Fresco secco; GC MS; Meteora; Post Byzantine art; Smalt; Spectroscopies

Indexed keywords

ART; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ICONOGRAPHY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 47249120769     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2008.03.017     Document Type: Article

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