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Schematic diagram illustrating multiple photonic imaging layers for the PISTACHIO project

PISTACHIO

Colour photograph of the Knole House Portrait of Thomas Sackville (courtesy of the National Trust)

IMPASTOW

Colour photograph showing participants at the first Conserving Canvas workshop held at The Hunterian examining Mikhail Larionov's Soldier in a Wood (Photo courtesy of Christina Young)

Conserving Canvas Initiative

Virgin with Child, Infant Saint John and Saint Dominic (1566), by Luis de Vargas (circa 1505-1568), painting, oil on wood panel, private collection (photo credit: Photographic Unit, University of Glasgow)

16th-Century Sevillian Panel Painting

Lady in a Fur Wrap, by Domenikos (El Greco) Theotokopoulos (1541-1614), painting, oil on canvas, Glasgow Museums Collection; Image licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

Unwrapping an Icon: Lady in a Fur Wrap and Related Spanish Paintings

Colour photograph showing the paint frame at Citizen's Theatre in Glasgow in 2018

Power To Transform

Colour photograph showing a microscopic image of the first prototype of a GDA prepared at the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre at University of Glasgow

Gecko Adhesives for Museum Collections

Scientific examination work being carried out on the murals in St Patrick’s Roman Catholic church (former New Episcopalian Chapel), Edinburgh (copyright Mark Richter, University of Glasgow, with permission from The Runciman Apse Trust)

Alexander Runciman Murals

Glasgow Close (c. 1956), by Joan Eardley (1921-1963), painting, oil on canvas, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow

Joan Eardley Materials and Methods

Extract from cross-section of bright red paint sample (taken from right edge) of Fergusson’s Le Voile Persan. The purplish-pink preparatory layer and some fibres of the support are also visible. UV fluorescence microscopy, magnification 200x. © Mark Richter, University of Glasgow

Scottish Colourists in The Hunterian

Church of Our Lady in Halberstadt, detail of the Virgin Mary with Christ Child, section of choir screen on the south side © Torsten Arnold, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt

Romanesque Polychrome Choir Screens

Microscopic image showing artificial arsenic sulphide pigments in a painting

Artificial Arsenic Sulphide Pigments used in 16th and 17th century Italian and Spanish Paintings of the Museo del Prado

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