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Vision, colour and meaning. Vision and colour in the works of Giotto and his contemporaries / Donal Cooper -- Robert Grosseteste’s De iride and its Addendum in the Vatican Manuscript Barb. Lat. 165: transmission, reception, meaning / Cecilia Panti and Greti Dinkova-Bruun -- Seeing a pink elephant: creating meaning through colour in the medieval bestiary / Elizabeth Morrison -- The colours of fortune / Deirdre Jackson -- Illuminators' materials. Recipes and reception: late mediaeval English colour. recipes and amateur illuminators / Mark Clarke -- Looking for lichen, fooled by folium and tricked by tyrian: a brief tour and new research on purple in manuscripts / Cheryl Porter, Maurizio Aceto, Elisa Calà, Angelo Agostino, Gaia Fenoglio, Ambra Idone and Monica Gulmini -- Reflecting a heavenly light: gold and other metals in medieval and Renaissance manuscript illumination / Nancy Turner -- Gold or brass, silver or tin: the analysis of metals in medieval book illumination / Robert Fuchs -- Pigmenta: materials for writing, painting and healing / Lea Olsan -- The use of copper sulphates in sixteenth-century Flemish illumination: Simon Bening as a case Ssudy / Giulia Bertolotti and Paola Ricciardi. Analytical techniques. Between tradition and innovation: giving light to a visionary text in the Lorvão Beatus / Maria João Melo, Maria Adelaide Miranda, Rita Castro, João Lopes and Jorge Sarraguça -- Scientific study of Cistercian illuminated manuscripts: techniques, aesthetics and religion / Catarina Miguel, Angela Nuñez-Gáitan, Maria Luisa Carvalho and Cristina Barrocas-Diasa -- Mapping and identification of the pigments used in two illuminations from the Laudario of Sant’Agnese attributed to the Master of the Dominican effigies / John K. Delaney, Kathryn Dooley, Damon Conover, Lisha Glinsman, Giorgio Trumpy and Michelle Facini -- The benefits of scanning illuminated manuscripts with MA-XRF and MA-rFTIR / Stijn Legrand, Paola Ricciardi and Koen Janssens. Restoration and forgery. The Psalter-Hours of Isabelle of France in the nineteenth-century — Stella Panayotova -- The Spanish Forger exposed: an interdisciplinary study of two of his paintings / Christina Currie, Steven Saverwyns and Dominique Vanwijnsberghe. |
