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). Issue 17 (8th March 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gonzalez, Victor; Cotte, Marine; Wallez, Gilles; van Loon, Annelies; de Nolf, Wout; Eveno, Myriam; Keune, Katrien; Noble, Petria; Dik, Joris
• Is Part Of: Angewandte Chemie international edition. Volume 58:Issue 17(2019)
• Page Start: 5771
• Page End: 5771
• Publication Date: 2019-03-08
• Subjects: impasto -- lead -- pigments -- Rembrandt -- synchrotron x-ray diffraction; Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.201902740
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1433-7851

Abstract

Abstract : 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 (Pb5 (CO3 )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.