TY - JOUR AU - Egel, Ellen AU - Simon, Stefan PY - 2013 DA - 2013/09/11 TI - Investigation of the painting materials in Zhongshan Grottoes(Shaanxi, China) JO - Heritage Science SP - 29 VL - 1 IS - 1 AB - This paper reports on the characterization of paint samples from polychrome sculptures in the main cave of the Zhongshan Grottoes, China. Optical Microscopy (OM), Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy in combination with Energy Dispersive X-ray analysis (ESEM/EDX), Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and Raman spectroscopy were carried out in order to study the stratigraphy of the sculptural polychromy and to determine the painting materials. SN - 2050-7445 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/2050-7445-1-29 DO - 10.1186/2050-7445-1-29 ID - Egel2013 ER -