THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRESERVATION AND TECHNIQUE IN PAINTINGS IN THE ORANJEZAAL

摘要: Abstract This paper describes natural aging processes in the seventeenth-century oil paintings from Oranjezaal ensemble Huis ten Bosch Palace (The Hague). Degradation of a wide range pigments – lead white, lead-tin yellow, minium, smalt, azurite, ultramarine, vivianite, orpiment, vermilion, bone black, organic lakes, indigo and Kassel earth paints is discussed. In this unique case an kept under known conditions with similar restoration histories, it was possible to relate degree differences quality pigment binding medium ways artists applied their materials.