A Silver Monochrome "Concetto spaziale" by Lucio Fontana: A Spectroscopic Non- and Micro-Invasive Investigation of Materials.

ABSTRACT: In several of his artworks, for instance the Venezie cycle, Fontana employed metallic paints; previous investigations on such materials highlighted the use of different synthetic binders and of thick paint layers below the metal one, having different colours to change the visual perception of the metallic surface. In the present work, a monochrome silver "Concetto spaziale" by the Italo-Argentine artist belonging to a private collection recently gifted to the museum of the Church of San Fedele in Milano, Italy, was investigated to deepen the knowledge of this particular group of Fontana's paintings. The artwork was initially visually inspected in visible and ultraviolet (UV) light. Subsequently, a non-invasive spectroscopic investigation was performed by X-ray fluorescence (XRF), re

SUBMITTER: Longoni M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9320160 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature