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Fig. 6

From: The role of smalt in complex pigment mixtures in Rembrandt’s Homer 1663: combining MA-XRF imaging, microanalysis, paint reconstructions and OCT

Fig. 6

Series of paint reconstructions of smalt mixtures based on sample x25 from Homer’s belt (88 vol% smalt/glass, 5 vol% red earth, 5 vol% yellow earth, 2 vol% bone black), with colorless potash glass (0 wt% CoO), 2.66 wt% CoO smalt, and 4 wt% CoO smalt, applied on white and black tiles (1st and 3rd rows), with digital color reconstructions of the paint reconstructions based on the measured L*a*b* values to visualize the observed color differences (2nd and 4th rows)

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