Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice

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  1. Park, D. 1983. The wall paintings of the Holy Sepulchre Chapel. In Mediellal Art
    and Architecture at Winchester Cathedral. British Archaeological Association Con­
    ference Transactions 1980, VI, 38-62.

  2. I am indebted to Stephen Rickerby and the students of the Conservation of
    Wall Painting Course, Courtauld Institute, for their observations during the work
    in the chapel, and for providing the drawings used in Figures 4 and 6. Previous
    investigations of aspects of the paintings include: Hluvko, S. 1991. Red piglTlents
    in English medieval wall painting; and Howard, H. 1988. Blue pigments in En­
    glish medieval wall painting. Diploma dissertations. London: Conservation of
    Wall Painting Department, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.

  3. This scene, previously described as the Raising of Lazarus, was identified by
    Christoph Tinzl.

  4. Lee, M. 1975. Paintings in the Holy Sepulchre Chapel, Winchester. Unpublished
    M.A. report, University of London.

  5. For the role of organic additives in plaster, see Sickels, L. 1981. Organics v syn­
    thetics: their use as additives in mortars. In Mortars, Cements and Grouts Used in
    the Conservation of Historic Buildings. Rome: International Centre for the Study
    of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, 25-49.

  6. Deeply undulating surfaces occur in other Romanesque paintings, such as the
    scheme of ca. 1130 in St. Gabriel's Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral. See Cather,
    S., and H. Howard. 1994. Romanesque wall paintings in the apse of St. Gabriel's
    Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral: their technique, condition and environment reas­
    sessed. Arbeitslufte zur Denkmalpfiege in Niedersachsen (11):143.

  7. See Rickerby, S. 1990. Kempley: A technical examination of the Romanesque
    wall paintings. In Early Medieval Wall Painting and Painted Sculpture in England.
    Ed. S. Cather, et al. Oxford: BAR British Series 219, 249-261; Howard, H. 1992.
    All Saints' Church, Witley, Surrey: scientific examination of the Romanesque
    wall paintings. Unpublished report. London: Conservation of Wall Painting De­
    partment, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London; Cather and Howard,
    op. cit. (note 6).

  8. These patches were mapped in the 1980s by the Canterbury Cathedral Wall­
    painting Workshop.

  9. Kupfer, M. 1986. Les fresques romanes de Vicq: Etude technique. Bulletin Mon­
    umental 144:98-132.

  10. Park, op. cit., 40.

  11. Mairinger, F., and M. Schreiner. 1986. Deterioration and preservation of Caro­
    lingian and medieval wall paintings in the Mlistair Convent. Part II: Materials
    and rendering of the Carolingian wall paintings. In Case Studies in the Conserl!ation
    of Stone and Wall Paintings. Ed. N. S. Bronmlelle, et al. London: International
    Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 195-96.

  12. Ultramarine was the mineral blue normally employed in Romanesque wall
    paintings, though azurite has been identified at Kempley (Rickerby, op. cit., 256)
    and Marslet, Denmark (Graebe, H., K. Trampedach, and M. Jensen. 1986. Kalk­
    malerierne i Marslet Kirke. National museete Arbejdsmark 23:164-82).

  13. Matteini, M., and A. Moles. 1994. Mural paintings in Wunstorf-Idensen: Chem­
    ical investigations on paintings, materials and techniques. Arbeitschifte zur Denk­
    malpfiege in Niedersachsen 11:85-86.

  14. Cather and Howard, op. cit., 144-46.

  15. Matteini and Moles, op. cit., 85.

  16. Cennino Cennini. II Libro Dell'Arte: The Craftsman's Handbook. 1933. Translated
    by D. V. Thompson. New Haven, 26.

  17. The acceleration of the rate of fading over time, due to an increased proportion
    of white, has been shown experimentally for a lake mixed with white, and for
    a lake used as a glaze over a white ground. See Johnston-Feller, R., and C. W
    Bailie. 1982. An analysis of the optics of paint glazes: fading. In Science and Tech­
    nology in the Service of Conserl/ation. Ed. N. S. Brommelle, et al. London: Inter­
    national Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 180-85.

  18. Faye, G. H., P. G. Manning, and E. H. Nickel. 1968. The polarized optical ab­
    sorption spectra of tourmaline, cordierite, chloritoid and vivianite: ferrous-ferric
    electronic interaction as a source of pleochroism. The American Mineralogist (53):
    1174-20 1.

  19. I am grateful to Dr. G. Cressey of the Natural History Museum for carrying out
    analysis by X-ray diffraction using a Debye-Scherrer camera. The possible ad-


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