Vibrational spectroscopy has proven itself to be a valuable contributor in the study of various
fields of science, primarily due to the extraordinary versatility of sampling methods. Raman …

Natural Fe-bearing ochres ranging in color from yellow to deep red and brown abound on
earth's crust. Quite often, ochres can be used for pigmenting purposes upon little or no …

The Pigment Compendium Dictionary is a comprehensive information source for scientists,
art historians, conservators and forensic specialists. Drawn together from extensive …

Minerals have been used as pigments for thousands of years. Red and yellow pigments are
generally associated with iron oxides or, specifically, hematite (α-Fe2O3) and goethite (α …

Pigments Checker is a collection of swatches of historical and modern pigments that offers
art professionals, conservation scientists, conservators and fine art photographers, a tool to …

Clay minerals and iron oxides are intimately related in the process of their natural formation.
Their mineralogical composition and physical properties correspond to the physical …

Improvements in the instrumentation for dispersive and interferometric Fourier transform (FT)
Raman microscopy have overcome many of the earlier limitations of these techniques, thus …

The potential of fibre optic reflection infrared spectroscopy for the non-invasive identification
of artists' pigments is presented. Sixteen different carbonate, sulphate and silicate-based …

Minerals, as raw structural materials or pigments, play a fundamental role in archaeometry,
for the understanding of nature, structure and status of an artefact or object of interest for …

Scientific interest in analytical tools that enable reliable, repeatable, and rapid
measurements without sampling is growing in the field of cultural heritage. Therefore …