Conservation at the NGA

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Scientific Research

▸16th-Century Renaissance Pigments and Painting Techniques

▸Chemical Characteristics of Pigments in Art

▸Conservation Materials

▸Preventive Conservation

▸Effects of Light Exposure
Analytical Imaging

▸Infrared Reflectography

▸Art and Science: Renaissance Illuminations

▸Use of Hyperspectral Infrared Imaging to Study Picasso's “The Tragedy”

▸Will Bosch’s Miser Achieve Salvation?
Materials

▸The Art Materials Collection: A Personal Vision

▸Give it to Me in Black and White

▸The Advent of Acrylic Dispersion Primers

▸A Comparison of Historic and Modern Pigments
Paintings

▸Treatment of Jean Dubuffet's "Façades d’Immeubles (Building Façades)," 1946

▸John Constable

▸Varnish Notes

▸Research on Varnishes for Paintings
Objects

▸Conservation Revealed: The French Sculpture Project

▸Examination and Treatment of the Large Bronze, "Isoult", 1926, by Edward McCartan

▸An Entrance to the Paris Métropolitain: Conservation of an original Hector Guimard architectural surround

▸A Closer Look at a 15th century Florentine Terracotta Madonna and Child
Works on Paper

▸Illuminated Manuscripts

▸Up Close: Raphael's The Prophets Hosea and Jonah

▸Paper Sample Collection
Photographs

▸Treatment of a Photograph by Gordon Parks

▸Treatment of a Mold-Damaged Albumen Print
Other Objects and Media

▸Textiles

▸Frames

▸Matting

▸Hinge-Free Mounting
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