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Inside Back Cover: Unraveling the Composition of Rembrandt's Impasto through the Identification of Unusual Plumbonacrite by Multimodal X‐ray Diffraction Analysis (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 17/2019)
Author(s) -
Gonzalez Victor,
Cotte Marine,
Wallez Gilles,
van Loon Annelies,
de Nolf Wout,
Eveno Myriam,
Keune Katrien,
Noble Petria,
Dik Joris
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201902740
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , crystallography , x ray , diffraction , synchrotron , materials science , polymer science , physics , chemistry , optics , engineering , mechanical engineering
Rembrandt is renowned for his impasto, a paint with outstanding rheological properties, the exact formulation of which has remained a mystery. In their Communication on page 5619 ff., V. Gonzalez et al. used synchrotron X‐ray diffraction to investigate microscopic samples from Rembrandt masterpieces; a rare lead compound, plumbonacrite (Pb 5 (CO 3 ) 3 O(OH) 2 ), was detected in the impasto. This constitutes the fingerprint of Rembrandt's recipe, shedding light on the Master's pictorial technique.