This article summarises the history of cinnabar, from its first uses in burials to modern oils on
canvas. After a brief introduction on mercury and contamination issues, the article gets to the …

This review offers an update on arsenic-bearing minerals and pigments with the aim of
serving as a guide for the study of Cultural Heritage materials in which these materials can …

Recent studies are concisely reviewed, in which X-ray beams of (sub) micrometre to
millimetre dimensions have been used for non-destructive analysis and characterization of …

This article investigates a novel data fusion method to predict clay content and cation
exchange capacity using visible near-infrared (visNIR) spectroscopy, portable X-ray …

This paper presents the first comprehensive study on the role played by pigment particle
size in pigment-binder interactions, and thus susceptibility to aging of azurite-rabbit glue …

This review describes advances in the XRF group of techniques published approximately
between April 2015 and March 2016. Fundamental contributions in the instrumentation …

This review demonstrates advances in XRF instrumentation, techniques and data
processing algorithms published during the last year. Pixellated detectors and EDXRF …

Non-invasive techniques (X-ray fluorescence, XRF, and Raman spectroscopy) were used for
the study of the Hispano Muslim wall paintings. Principal component analysis (PCA) was …

Advanced microscopy analyses are capable of revealing particles that are existent in the
Alhambra, Spain, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, at minimal levels owing to the detailed …

An innovative in-situ multianalytical methodology is presented to assess the conservation
state of a sandstone entrance arch of 18th century La Galea Fortress, located in Getxo, north …