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Creating + conserving

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The conservator's eye
The conservator's eye: Marble statue of a wounded warrior
The conservator's eye: Taddeo Gaddi, Saint Julian
The conservator’s eye: a stained glass Adoration of the Magi
The conservator’s eye: Rembrandt, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
The conservator's eye: Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory
The conservator’s eye: Anselm Kiefer, Bohemia Lies by the Sea
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Tempera paint
Oil paint in Venice
Gold-ground panel painting
How to stretch a large canvas
Almost Invisible: The Cartoon Transfer Process
Investigating Rothko's Technique
How to paint like...
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How to paint like Willem de Kooning
How to paint like Yayoi Kusama
How to paint like Agnes Martin
How to paint like Barnett Newman
How to paint like Jackson Pollock
How to paint like Ad Reinhardt
How to paint like Mark Rothko
About color
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Making Purple: The Science of Art
Making Green: Tempera versus Oil
The Alchemy of Color and Chemical Change in Medieval Manuscripts
How to paint like...
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How to paint like Willem de Kooning
How to paint like Franz Kline
How to paint like Yayoi Kusama
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How to paint like Jackson Pollock
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Art Terms in Action: Viscosity
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Jan Gossart – Conservation Discoveries
Conserving Velázquez's Portrait of Philip IV
Conserving Flowers in a Glass Vase
Michael Gallagher on Everhard Jabach and His Family
Conserving the Virgin of Guadalupe
Conserving Vincent van Gogh's Field with Irises near Arles
Van Gogh's Enclosed Field with Ploughman under raking light
The Science of Van Gogh's Bedrooms
Restoring Rothko
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Quarrying and carving marble
Medieval goldsmiths – Treasures of Heaven at the British Museum
Making a Spanish polychrome sculpture
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Bronze casting using the direct lost-wax method
Working jade
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The Conservation of Tullio Lombardo's Adam
Object Conservation – Salisbury Cross
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Introduction to printmaking
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Relief process
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Introduction to lithography
Making and conserving manuscripts and drawings
Making manuscripts
Drawing with Charcoal: Historical Techniques of 19th-Century France
Science and Paper: Conserving a Drypoint by Michael Heizer
Conserving Old Master Drawings
Henri Matisse: Conserving The Swimming Pool
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Before photography (1 of 12)
The Daguerreotype (2 of 12)
Talbot's Processes (3 of 12)
The Cyanotype (4 of 12)
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The Albumen Print (6 of 12)
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Color Photography (11 of 12)
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Greek Vase-Painting, an introduction
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Making Greek vases
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Glassmaking technique: free-blown glass
Mold-blown Glass
Ancient and Byzantine Mosaic Materials
Medieval Goldsmiths
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The art of making a tapestry
Conserving
William Morris, The Bullerswood Carpet
Conserving the Emperor's Carpet
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Framing Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth
Conserving
Behind the scenes of the framing department at The National Gallery, London
Van Dyck's Self-portrait: The Frame and its Conservation
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Kasbah Taourirt: Conserving Earthen Heritage in Morocco
Conservation Reel archive
What is conservation?
Lab Tour: Conservation Science
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IMA Conservation: The Oddy Test
IMA Conservation: Documentation Imaging
IMA Conservation: 5 Questions with Richard McCoy
IMA Conservation: 5 Questions with Linda Witkowski
IMA Conservation: 5 Questions with Kristen Adsit
IMA Conservation: 5 Questions with Gregory Smith
IMA Conservation: 5 Questions with David Miller
IMA Conservation: 5 Questions with Amanda Holden
IMA Conservation: 5 Questions with Aaron Steele
Manuscripts and works on paper
How to Examine a Work on Paper
Wrapping Paper Objects for Hand Transport
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Conservation Notes: Tom Thomson's The West Wind
Finding the Lost Crucifix in a Perugino Panel Painting
Finding the Original Context of Rosselli's Kneeling Angel
Examining a Panel Painting
IMA Conservation: Cleaning a Painting
Inpainting a Van Dyck
IMA Conservation: Pigment Analysis with XRF Spectrometry
What X-Rays of a Vivarini Reveal About Its Past
Examining a Veronese with XRF Spectrometry
Sebastiano Mainardi: The Science of Art Installation, Behind the Scenes
Sculpture + installation
Lab Tour: Objects and Variable Art
Preserving Art: Tara Donovan's Untitled (Plastic Cups)
Tara Donovan's Untitled (Mylar)
Artist Max Dean on the conservation of As Yet Untitled
Talking Chaos with Roland Wetzel
A Conversation with Robert Irwin on Light and Space III
IMA Conservation: The Lightbulbs in Light and Space III
Evidence of Lost Wax Casting
Textiles
IMA Conservation: Preparing a Mola Garment for Display
IMA Conservation: Preparing Mola Textiles for Display
Frames
Examining a 17th-century frame
Architecture
The Making of the Bartholomew County Veterans Memorial
Modern Architecture as Heritage
Talks + symposia
Innovative Approaches to Conservation
Conservation Data and Digital Asset Management
Moving Responsibilities: The Care of Performance-Based Sculpture
The Invention of Glory: A Symposium
The Plus/Minus Dilemma: The Way Forward in Environmental Guidelines

Making Purple: The Science of Art

by The National Gallery (London)

Video from The National Gallery (London)

Cite this page as: The National Gallery (London), "Making Purple: The Science of Art," in Smarthistory, May 5, 2017, accessed September 20, 2019, https://smarthistory.org/making-purple-science-of-art/.

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