The Leman Album is Europe's earliest group of dated designs for woven silk known to survive. For the past two years it has been studied by scientists, conservators, curators, archivists, makers and historians, using a truly interdisciplinary approach under the auspices of the V&A Research Institute (VARI), generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This paper focuses on the scientific analysis of the designs, which pursued multiple targets, such as investigating the nature of degradation processes, e.g., fading or darkening of the pigments and dyes; uncovering the underdrawing and any amendments; and identifying the artists' materials, in order to inform conservation, storage and handling procedures. The analyses took place at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and involved V&A staff as well as researchers from other institutions through the EU-funded consortium IPERION-CH. Selected results will be made available to the wider public through a web-based platform: the enhanced facsimile.
Scientific analysis underpinning the multidisciplinary project “The Leman Album: an Enhanced Facsimile” / Rosarosa Manca; Lucia Burgio; Victoria Button; Clare Browne; Olivia Horsfall Turner; Jane Rutherston; Laura Cartechini; Brenda Doherty; Chiara Grazia; Marco Paolantoni; Francesca Rosi; Marco Barucci; Raffaella Fontana; Aurélie Tournie; Christine Andraud; Anne Michelin. - In: THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL PLUS. - ISSN 2190-5444. - ELETTRONICO. - 134:(2019), pp. 267.1-267.13. [10.1140/epjp/i2019-12668-0]
Scientific analysis underpinning the multidisciplinary project “The Leman Album: an Enhanced Facsimile”
Rosarosa Manca
;Francesca Rosi;Marco Barucci;Raffaella Fontana;
2019
Abstract
The Leman Album is Europe's earliest group of dated designs for woven silk known to survive. For the past two years it has been studied by scientists, conservators, curators, archivists, makers and historians, using a truly interdisciplinary approach under the auspices of the V&A Research Institute (VARI), generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This paper focuses on the scientific analysis of the designs, which pursued multiple targets, such as investigating the nature of degradation processes, e.g., fading or darkening of the pigments and dyes; uncovering the underdrawing and any amendments; and identifying the artists' materials, in order to inform conservation, storage and handling procedures. The analyses took place at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and involved V&A staff as well as researchers from other institutions through the EU-funded consortium IPERION-CH. Selected results will be made available to the wider public through a web-based platform: the enhanced facsimile.I documenti in FLORE sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.