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A New Instrument for the Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Objects of Art and Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Manfred Schreiner ,
Michael Mantler ,
Franz Weber ,
Richard Ebner  and
Franz Mairinger
Manfred Schreiner
Affiliation:
Institute of Chemistry, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna/Austria
Michael Mantler
Affiliation:
Institute of Applied and Technical Physics Technical University, Vienna/Austria
Franz Weber
Affiliation:
Institute of Applied and Technical Physics Technical University, Vienna/Austria
Richard Ebner
Affiliation:
Institute of Applied and Technical Physics Technical University, Vienna/Austria
Franz Mairinger
Affiliation:
Institute of Chemistry, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna/Austria
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Objects of art and archaeology are relicts of the past, and art historians, archaeologists and conservators are constantly concerned with the questions of where, when or by whom such artifacts were made. Usually stylistic considerations can provide answers to these questions, but as styles were sometimes copied at locations and times quite different from those for which they were most characteristic, material analysis is often essential when one is attempting to infer how and of what materials an object was made. The use of several compounds e.g. as pigments in paintings, or the deliberate alloying of Cu with Sn, As, Sb and Pb, has varied greatly from region to region and from time to time and can be used to infer the geographic origin of an object or at least the origin of the materials, out of which it was made.

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XIV. XRS Applications
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 35 , Issue B: First Pacific-International Congress on X-ray Analytical Methods (PICXAM). Fortieth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 7-16, 1991 , 1991 , pp. 1157 - 1163
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1991

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