Recent studies are concisely reviewed, in which X-ray beams of (sub) micrometre to
millimetre dimensions have been used for non-destructive analysis and characterization of …

The absorption of light gives a pigment its colour and its reason for being, but it also creates
excited states, that is, new molecules with an energy excess that can be dissipated through …

Applications of synchrotron X-ray nano-probes in the field of cultural heritage Page 1 CR
Physique 19 (2018) 575–588 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Comptes Rendus …

The red pigment mercury sulfide, called cinnabar or vermilion, is well known to suffer from
an alteration giving rise to a grey, grey-white or black color at the surface of degraded works …

Red lead, a semiconductor pigment used by artists since antiquity, is known to undergo
several discoloration phenomena. These transformations are either described as darkening …

X‐ray diffraction (XRD) map** consists in the acquisition of XRD patterns at each pixel (or
voxel) of an area (or volume). The spatial resolution ranges from the micrometer (μXRD) to …

The red mineral pigment known as cinnabar (HgS) was commonly employed in Roman
fresco wall paintings. Fresco artists of the period favored this pigment for its striking red …

Here, we demonstrate the use of pump-probe microscopy for high-resolution studies of
vermilion degradation. Vermilion (mostly α-HgS), an important red pigment used in historical …

The darkening process of cinnabar and vermilion-based paint surfaces as well as pigment-
binder interactions upon weathering have been studied by subjecting egg-yolk tempera …

The literature on the use of synchrotron radiation-based methods, such as X-ray
fluorescence spectrometry (XRF), X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), and X-ray powder …