O estudo laboratorial de pinturas através de vários casos

Acabou de ser livremente disponibilizada na internet a seguinte tese de doutoramento que há poucos dias, já em Março, foi defendida na Universidade de Amesterdão:

Catharina Maria Groen, Paintings in the Laboratory: Scientific Examination for Art History and Conservation, Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2011.

Está aqui.

A tese, além de uma introdução e uma adenda, é constituída pelos seguintes estudos, já antes publicados, aqui literalmente reproduzidos (inclusivamente no aspecto gráfico) das publicações originais:

• Karin Groen, "Halcyon days for art history", in C. P. Schneider, W. W. Robinson, A. I. Davies (ed.), Shop talk: studies in honor of Seymour Slive, presented on his seventy-fifth birthday, Cambridge Massachusetts, Harvard University Art Museums, 1995, pp. 89-91.

• Karin Groen, "Grounds in Rembrandt’s workshop and in paintings by his contemporaries", in E. van de Wetering (ed.), A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings. IV - The self-portraits, Dordrecht, Springer, 2005, pp. 318-334.

• Karin M. Groen, "Earth matters: the origin of the material used for the preparation of the Night Watch and many other canvases in Rembrandt's workshop after 1640", ArtMatters: Netherlands technical studies in art, 3, 2005, pp. 138-154.

• Karin Groen, "In the Beginning There Was Red", in M. v. d. Doel, N. v. Eck, G. Korevaar, A. Tummers, T. Weststijn (ed.), The Learned Eye. Regarding Art, Theory, and the Artist's Reputation, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2005.

• Karin Groen, "Investigation of the Use of the Binding Medium by Rembrandt - Chemical Analysis and Rheology", Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung, 11(2), 1997, pp. 207-227.

• C. M. Groen, "Towards identification of brown discoloration on green paint", in Icom committee for conservation (ed.), ICOM Committee for Conservation 4th Triennial Meeting, Venice, 13-18 October 1975: preprints, Paris, International Council of Museums, 1975.

• Karin Groen, "Het Loof is wat na den blauwen treckende", Kunstschrift Openbaar Kunstbezit, 12(3), 1987, pp. 106-111.

• Karin Groen, "Scanning electron microscopy as an aid in the study of blanching", Hamilton Kerr Institute Bulletin, 1, 1988, pp. 48-65.

• Karin Groen, Ella Hendries, "Frans Hals: a technical examination", in S. Slive (ed.), Frans Hals, Munich, Prestel-Verlag, 1989, pp. 109-127.

• Ella Hendries, Karin Groen, "Judith Leyster: A technical examination of her work", in J. A. Welu (ed.), Judith Leyster. A Dutch Master and Her World, Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum, 1993, pp. 93-114.

• Karin M. Groen, Inez D. Van der Werf, Klaas Jan Van den Berg, Jaap J. Boon, "Scientific examination of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring", in I. Gaskell, M. Jonker (ed.), Vermeer Studies, Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1998, pp. 169-184.