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Show Notes:
0:01 scientific methods in London/Berlin to understand/preserve cultural heritage since 19th Century
2:30 history of cultural heritage science
4:00 founding Scientific Analysis of Fine Art LLC (SAFA)
5:40 Yves Tanguy’s Fraud in the Garden
5:50 catalogue raisonné by art historians Charles Stuckey/Stephen Mack
6:10 fascist attack at screening of Luis Bunuel’s satiric “L’Age d’Oro”
7:00 use of multi-spectral imaging on Fraud in the Garden - ultraviolet light and infrared radiation, x-rays to view slash pattern on painting
7:45 restorations on Fraud in the Garden dated through pigments/paint binders
9:00 value of artwork as historical documents v. restoration
9:45 cultural heritage as historical documents example of Victoria & Albert Museum
10:45 display of Rothko Murals at Harvard
11:45 analysis for attribution questions varies between antiquities, paintings, decorative art objects
13:20 non-destructive drive for protocols for elemental and molecular analysis
14:00 changes to work by Van Gogh and Met’s Irises and Roses
14:30 geranium lake known as Eosin red
15:00 paints like cadmium/chromium yellows from Industrial Revolution are also very sensitive to light and relative humidity
15:15 changes in Matisse’s 4 versions of Joy of Life – yellows fading to ivory white
15:30 mechanism of degradation
16:20 Picasso's 1901 The Blue Room
17:30 Cezanne
18:15 analysis of over 900 paint tubes from Munch
19:30 paints standardized in 1920s
21:00 flaking of zinc white: reaction of zinc oxide with oil creates crystalized molecules - zinc soaps
21:25 titanium white
23:00 heavy metal pigment paints strongly absorb x-rays like lead white/vermillion (a mercury sulfide red) prevent seeing underpainting
24:45 head of scientific vetting committee for TEFAF New York
27:15 Court of Arbitration for Art
28:35 trusting science for due diligence
30:30 stigma attached to use of science
33:00 Bard Graduate Center
34:00 wooden polychrome sculpture analysis: dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating
36:00 dirty dozen paint list
36:45 mixing drying linseed with non-drying oil paint (sunflower)
37:50 Eosin red, emerald green, cadmium yellow, chromium yellow, vermillion, copper blues
38:50 favorite paintings
39:10 Modigliani at the Barnes
39:45 Modigliani’s palette
40:35 The Burlington Magazine
41:10 Klimt’s Faculty Paintings
42:30 computational technologies
43:00 justice
43:45 invention of photography enabled Jacob Riis to document New York slums
44:00 20th Century photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine
44:20 BLM
44:30 environmental justice
45:40 recommendations
46:55 legacy to create scientific literacy for art conservators and historians
Please share your comments and/or questions at [email protected]
Music by Toulme.
To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.
To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [email protected].
Thanks so much for listening!
© Stephanie Drawdy [2025]
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To learn more, please visit the website for Scientific Analysis of Fine Art, LLC.
Show Notes:
0:01 scientific methods in London/Berlin to understand/preserve cultural heritage since 19th Century
2:30 history of cultural heritage science
4:00 founding Scientific Analysis of Fine Art LLC (SAFA)
5:40 Yves Tanguy’s Fraud in the Garden
5:50 catalogue raisonné by art historians Charles Stuckey/Stephen Mack
6:10 fascist attack at screening of Luis Bunuel’s satiric “L’Age d’Oro”
7:00 use of multi-spectral imaging on Fraud in the Garden - ultraviolet light and infrared radiation, x-rays to view slash pattern on painting
7:45 restorations on Fraud in the Garden dated through pigments/paint binders
9:00 value of artwork as historical documents v. restoration
9:45 cultural heritage as historical documents example of Victoria & Albert Museum
10:45 display of Rothko Murals at Harvard
11:45 analysis for attribution questions varies between antiquities, paintings, decorative art objects
13:20 non-destructive drive for protocols for elemental and molecular analysis
14:00 changes to work by Van Gogh and Met’s Irises and Roses
14:30 geranium lake known as Eosin red
15:00 paints like cadmium/chromium yellows from Industrial Revolution are also very sensitive to light and relative humidity
15:15 changes in Matisse’s 4 versions of Joy of Life – yellows fading to ivory white
15:30 mechanism of degradation
16:20 Picasso's 1901 The Blue Room
17:30 Cezanne
18:15 analysis of over 900 paint tubes from Munch
19:30 paints standardized in 1920s
21:00 flaking of zinc white: reaction of zinc oxide with oil creates crystalized molecules - zinc soaps
21:25 titanium white
23:00 heavy metal pigment paints strongly absorb x-rays like lead white/vermillion (a mercury sulfide red) prevent seeing underpainting
24:45 head of scientific vetting committee for TEFAF New York
27:15 Court of Arbitration for Art
28:35 trusting science for due diligence
30:30 stigma attached to use of science
33:00 Bard Graduate Center
34:00 wooden polychrome sculpture analysis: dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating
36:00 dirty dozen paint list
36:45 mixing drying linseed with non-drying oil paint (sunflower)
37:50 Eosin red, emerald green, cadmium yellow, chromium yellow, vermillion, copper blues
38:50 favorite paintings
39:10 Modigliani at the Barnes
39:45 Modigliani’s palette
40:35 The Burlington Magazine
41:10 Klimt’s Faculty Paintings
42:30 computational technologies
43:00 justice
43:45 invention of photography enabled Jacob Riis to document New York slums
44:00 20th Century photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine
44:20 BLM
44:30 environmental justice
45:40 recommendations
46:55 legacy to create scientific literacy for art conservators and historians
Please share your comments and/or questions at [email protected]
Music by Toulme.
To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.
To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [email protected].
Thanks so much for listening!
© Stephanie Drawdy [2025]
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