Author Description

1. Dioscorides as an art technological source / Mark Clarke. 2. Academy and workshop: medieval transmission of late antique knowledge / Mark Clarke and Arie Wallert. 3. An elusive colorant: availability, preparation and use of anthocyanin colorants in European medieval illuminators' workshops / Sylvie Neven and Jana Sanyova. 4. Paint it red: vermilion manufacture in the Middle Ages / Stefanos Kroustallis and Rocio Bruquetas. 5. Medieval sculptures re-polychromed and re-gilded in the nineteenth century by Adrien Hubert Bressers / Delphine Steyaert. 6. 'This they use in Madrid': the ground layer in paintings on canvas in 17th-century Madrid / Maite Jover de Celis and Dolores Gayo. 7. Van Dyck and de Mayerne: a cautionary note regarding the manuscript / Rica Jones. 8. Materials for painting and gilding used in the Benedictine community of Portugal 1638-1822: other times, other ways / Agnès Le Gac, Paulo Oliveira, Isabel Dias Costa and Maria João Dias Costa. 9. Evolutions and transformations of harpsichords in France in the 17th and 18th centuries / Christine Laloue and Jean-Philippe Echard. 10. Manufacturing techniques and the art of wax modelling: from the sculptor's studio to the anatomical workshop / Alicia Sánchez Ortiz and Sandra Micó Boró. 11. Combining different types of sources for a better understanding of tempera painting around 1900 / Patrick Dietemann and Wibke Neugebauer. 12. Interpretation of documentary sources for the industrial preparation of 'zinc white' in the 19th century / Nicholas Eastaugh, Jilleen Nadolny and Weronika Swiech. 13. Hans Heysen's art materials: an investigation into suppliers, knowledge and choice / Rosemary Diana Heysen and Nicole Andrea Tse. 14. Jean Tinguely's script for Homage to New York (1960) / Reinhard Bek and Christine Frohnert. 15. Recent publications on art technological source research / Ad Stijnman. 16. 'Colour ConText': a database on colour practice and colour knowledge in pre-modern Europe / Sylvie Neven, Karin Leonha