Barbara H. Berrie

TL;DR: The Pigment Handbook as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays on ten of the most important pigments for conservators, restorers, and art historians, with the support of the National Gallery of Art.

TL;DR: The properties of three classes of innovative gels for use on artwork are examined, demonstrating uniquely useful characteristics in each class: rheoreversible gels become free-flowing on application of a chemical or thermal "switch", magnetic gels, and "peelable" gels.

TL;DR: The combined use of raster-scanning microspectroscopy and full-field microimaging in an integrated analytical methodology is proposed and discussed and proved useful for mapping organic materials at the submicrometer scale and visualizing heterogeneities of the semiconductor pigment material.

TL;DR: While the samples have apparent homogeneous photoluminescence behavior at the macroscale (bulk), their PL signatures are inhomogeneous below 20 μm, at the nanoscale the three powder samples have quite different PL signatures.

TL;DR: Soft, peelable organogels from 40% hydrolyzed poly(vinyl acetate) (40PVAc) and benzene-1,4-diboronic acid (BDBA) are developed to be effective at softening and removing deteriorated coatings from water-sensitive works of art and delicate surfaces.