Use of visible and infrared reflectance and luminescence imaging spectroscopy to study illuminated manuscripts: Pigment identification and visualization of underdrawings

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7391, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ricciardi, Paola ^a   Delaney, John K ^a   Glinsman, Lisha ^a   Thoury, Mathieu ^a   Facini, Michelle ^a   De La Rie, E René ^a  

^a NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber optics reflectance spectroscopy (FORS); Illuminated manuscripts; Imaging spectroscopy; Infrared reflectography (IRR); Luminescence; Niccol da Bologna; Pigment identification and mapping; X ray fluorescence (XRF)

Indexed keywords

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS; IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED REFLECTOGRAPHY (IRR); PIGMENT IDENTIFICATION AND MAPPING; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE (XRF);

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; FLUORESCENCE; HISTORY; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PAINT; PHOTOMAPPING; PHOTONICS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; REFLECTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 70349997548     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.827415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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