TY  - JOUR
AU  - Melo, Helena P.
AU  - Valadas, Sara
AU  - Cruz, António Joăo
AU  - Cardoso, Ana Margarida
AU  - Miguel, Catarina
AU  - Manhita, Ana
AU  - Helvaci, Yigit Zafer
AU  - Dias, Cristina Barrocas
AU  - Candeias, António
TI  - Italian Influence in a Portuguese Mannerist Painting (Part I): A New Palette with Original Orange and Green Pigments
T2  - Studies in Conservation
PY  - 2023
VL  - 68
IS  - 7
SP  - 731-746
AB  - TThe palette used by the Portuguese painter Pedro Nunes (1586-1637) in the large panel depicting The Descent from the Cross (460 x 304 cm) painted in 1620 for Évora's cathedral was investigated with a combination of the visual inspection of the paint surface and the analysis of the paint layers with microscopic, spectroscopic, and chromatographic techniques. Green earth and an orange artificial arsenic sulphide, two pigments identified for the first time in Portuguese paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, were found to be abundantly used in large areas of the composition. The results further reveal the choice of a rich palette also containing lead-white, lead-tin yellow, ochre, vermilion, verdigris, smalt, azurite, vegetable carbon black, and a red lake made of brazilwood and cochineal. All the pigments were bound in an oil-based medium. The introduction of two pigments new to the Portuguese conventional palette is a direct consequence of the painter's training in Rome in the first decade of the seventeenth century.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2022.2133917
ER  -