The Colour Theme
David Hradil, Janka Hradilová, Silvie Švarcová, Eva Kočí (eds.)
Published by Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze, NLN,s.r.o.
ISBN: 978-80-88366-14-0
December 2020
We would like to announce that the book can be ordered at alma@alma-lab.cz.
The proceedings contain contributions from the 7th interdisciplinary ALMA conference entitled "The Colour Theme", which took place on October 16–18, 2019, at the University Library in Bratislava. The contributions are published in English only.
The proceedings were published thanks to financial support from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (Institutional Support) and Strategy AV21 (Czech Academy of Sciences).
Contents
David Hradil and Janka Hradilová
Editorial / Colour as a Theme
Session 1 / Changing colours
Cristina Serendan, Ciprian Firea, Simina Ișvanca, Alexandru Chelmuș
Original colours and painting technique of two 17th century post-byzantine icons
Jitka Šrejberová, Janka Hradilová
Original colours – one of the keys to interpretation of mediaeval works of art
Anabelle Križnar, Jana Želinská
Changing and disappearing colors in medieval wall paintings – examples from selected Slovak murals around 1400
Silvia Garrappa, Silvie Švarcová, Eva Kočí, Janka Hradilová, Petr Bezdička, David Hradil
Lead soaps in paintings: symptoms and the role of humidity
Session 2 / Understanding colours
Andrea Urland, Eva Šperka
When colour is more than pigments - the challenges of restoring architectural colour schemes
Konstantinos Stoupathis
Developing a conservation strategy for the retouching of fluorescent paintings: the case study Greek H. LambertAldona Jędrusik
Sharing experiences in conservation – between art and show
Anna Klisińska-Kopacz, Michał Obarzanowski, Paulina Krupska, Anna Rygula, Julio del Hoyo Melendez
Jan Cybis, leader of the colourists painter‘s group: analysis of the artist‘s painting technique using spectroscopic methods
Luboš Machačko
Interdisciplinary research of painting technique of Josef Ceregetti on selected artworks
Boris Blatný, Janka Hradilová, Zuzana Ludiková, Radoslav Ragač, Stanislava Trginová
Interpretation of the painting the infant Saint John the Baptist with the lamb by Melchiorre Gherardini
Sara Jordi, Monika Blaser, Robert Sterchi, Jan Inauen, Daniel M. Meier
Identifying pure and applied JunFunori® – an algae-based consolidant
Michal Pech, Janka Hradilová
Identification of miniature paintings’ pigments using correlations of MA-XRF element maps
Session 3 / Making colours
Irina Petroviciu, Ileana Crețu
Scale insect sources of dyes in textiles from Romanian collections
Zuzana Širillová, Lenka Hřebřinová, Janka Hradilová, Michal Pech, Olga Trmalová
Hidden pigments in portrait miniatures – Purple of Cassius
Christoph Herm
Emerald green versus Scheele’s green: evidence and occurrence
Sylwia Svorová Pawełkowicz, Michał Witkowski, Petr Svora, Barbara Wagner
Historic paint investigation of the Gierczyn parish church painted decoration in the context of the mining history of the region
