Art world links which caught my eye...
Johannes Vermeer "The Milkmaid" (1660)
We assume when we look at paintings, we are seeing works that look the same way as when the artist created them. However, some pigments in paint are unstable, and alter over time. Now, chemist Frederik Vanmeert is using new technology to look at great art at a microscopic level.
"He's seen Vermeer's work in finer detail than most—at the microscopic level, down to the crystal latticework of the pigments that structure the language of the seventeenth-century Dutch painter's artistic vision. 'These days, because of my work, when I look at a Vermeer, I can't help but wonder: Are we really understanding what he intended?' Vanmeert tells me, approaching The Little Street, one of only two landscapes the artist is known to have painted. 'I get drawn closer to, say, this area here—the dark area of the lady's dress. It's difficult to decipher which type of fabric Vermeer meant to depict here, and I wonder if this is the original colour.'
"Fidelity of colour is Vanmeert's professional obsession. As a chemist in the art world, he's spent most of his career trying to understand colour: how it is produced, how it changes over time, how artists prepare the powders and substrates that become the medium through which they speak to us, and, ultimately, why they make the choices they do. If colour is the language of art, Vanmeert is its linguist."
Read the full article here: THE WALRUS - A Scientist's Quest to Decode Vermeer's True Colours
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