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Fig. 5

From: Visualizing and measuring gold leaf in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italian gold ground paintings using scanning macro X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy: a new tool for advancing art historical research

Fig. 5

a Gentile da Fabriano, Madonna and Child Enthroned, c.1420, 108.6 × 64.8 cm (National Gallery of Art, 1939.1.255) visible light image; b Au Lα element map (scanning parameters: 37 kV, 1000 μA, 1 mm spot size, 1 mm sampling, 40 ms/pixel dwell time); c Gentile da Fabriano, Coronation of the Virgin, about 1420, 93 × 64.1 cm (J. Paul Getty Museum, 77.PB.92) visible light image, detail; d Au Lα element map (scanning parameters: 50 kV, 600 μA, 530 μm spot size, 530 μm sampling, 8 ms/pixel dwell time); e Gentile da Fabriano, Nativity, about 1420–1422, 72.1 × 42.6 cm (J. Paul Getty Museum, 77.PB.27) visible light image. e Au Lα element map (scanning parameters: 50 kV, 600 μA, 450 μm spot size, 500 μm sampling, 15 ms/pixel dwell time). Digital images courtesy of a National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection and c, e the Getty Open Content Program

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