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Table 1 List of scanned objects and summary results of leaf measurements

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

Artist

Title, owner, accession no.

Date

Region

n

Mean vertical length (cm)

Mean horizontal length (cm)

Mean leaf length (cm)

Mean horizontal leaf overlaps (cm)

Mean vertical leaf overlaps (cm)

Simone Martini

St Luke

J. Paul Getty Museum (82.PB.72)

1330 s

Siena

14

8.0 ± 0.2

8.1 ± 0.2

8.1 ± 0.2

0.5 ± 0.1

0.5 ± 0.1

Taddeo Gaddi

Stigmatization of St Francis

Harvard Art Museums (1929.234)

c. 1325-30

Florence

6

8.0 ± 0.2

8.0 ± 0.1

8.0 ± 0.1

0.3 ± 0.1

0.3 ± 0.1

Gentile da Fabriano

Coronation of the Virgin

J. Paul Getty Museum (77.PB.27)

c.1420

Fabriano

23

8.0 ± 0.1

8.0 ± 0.1

8.0 ± 0.1

0.9 ± 0.3

0.8 ± 0.4

Nativity

J. Paul Getty Museum (77.PB.27)

About 1420-22

Florence (?)

9

6.8 ± 0.1

6.8 ± 0.1

6.8 ± 0.1

0.9 ± 0.2

0.8 ± 0.2

Madonna and Child Enthroned

National Gallery of Art (1939.1.255)

c. 1420

Florence

30

6.8 ± 0.1

6.8 ± 0.1

6.8 ± 0.1

0.8 ± 0.3

0.7 ± 0.2

Fra Angelico

St John the Baptist and St Dominic

J. Paul Getty Museum (92.PB.111.2)

1420 s

Florence

5

6.9 ± 0.1

6.9 ± 0.1

6.9 ± 0.1

0.3 ± 0.1

0.3 ± 0.1

Masaccio

St Francis and a Bishop Saint

J. Paul Getty Museum (92.PB.111.1)

1420 s

Florence

5

7.0 ± 0.1

6.9 ± 0.1

6.9 ± 0.1

0.3 ± 0.1

0.2 ± 0.1

St Andrew

J. Paul Getty Museum (79.PB.61)

1426

Florence

8

6.8 ± 0.1

6.8 ± 0.1

6.8 ± 0.1

0.5 ± 0.2

0.4 ± 0.2

Giovanni di Paolo

Branchini Madonna

Norton Simon Museum (F.1978.01.P)

1427

Siena

33

6.8 ± 0.1

6.8 ± 0.1

6.8 ± 0.1

0.5 ± 0.2

0.4 ± 0.1

Crucifixion

Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena (175)

1427

Siena

28

6.9 ± 0.1

6.9 ± 0.1

6.9 ± 0.1

0.5 ± 0.2

0.4 ± 0.2

Presentation in the Temple

Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena (174)

1427

Siena

14

6.9 ± 0.1

6.9 ± 0.1

6.8 ± 0.1

0.5 ± 0.2

0.4 ± 0.2

Adoration of the Magi

Kröller-Müller Museum (607)

1427

Siena

11

6.8 ± 0.1

6.9 ± 0.1

6.9 ± 0.1

0.5 ± 0.2

0.4 ± 0.1

Flight into Egypt

Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena (176)

1427

Siena

10

6.8 ± 0.1

6.8 ± 0.1

6.8 ± 0.1

0.5 ± 0.2

0.4 ± 0.2