id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_tzvxdbvrarhwjntvft75l2p6j4 Nica Gutman Rieppi Salvator Mundi: an investigation of the painting's materials and techniques 2020 12 .pdf application/pdf 7844 616 63 Before the start of its restoration in 2007, the Salvator Mundi was thought to be one of a number of copies of a longlost Leonardo da Vinci painting, depicting Christ giving a blessing with his right hand while holding a crystal orb in including stereomicroscopy, visible and fluorescent light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopy, Raman microspectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy in transmission mode soda-lime glass was detected in the ground, imprimitura and paint layers, and a walnut oil medium was identified by Keywords: Salvator Mundi, Panel painting, Cross-section, Raman, SEM, FTIR, Py-GCMS, Pigments Fig. 3 Cross-section sample 1 from flesh highlight, proper right hand (left), showing: (1) ground (2) imprimitura (3) black background paint layer (4) flesh highlight paint layers; backscattered electron (SEM-BSE) image (right) corresponding to area with overlaid box, showing coarse glass particles In the area sampled, several further paint layers, black in color, are situated above the warm brown ./cache/work_tzvxdbvrarhwjntvft75l2p6j4.pdf ./txt/work_tzvxdbvrarhwjntvft75l2p6j4.txt