Looking through paintings : the study of painting techniques and materials in support of art historical research / editor, Erma Hermens ; associate editors, Annemiek Ouwerkerk and Nicola Costaras.

Includes bibliographical references.

Some reflections upon the impact of scientific examination on art historical research / J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer -- Design, technique and execution : the dichotomy between theory and craft in nineteenth-century British instruction manuals on oil painting / Leslie Carlyle -- Taking a closer look : art historians, restorers and scientists / John Leighton -- Colour words in the High Middle Ages / John Gage -- White and golden tin foil in applied relief decoration 1240-1530 / Josephine A. Darrah -- Links with Schongauer in three early Netherlandish paintings in the National Gallery / Rachel Billinge -- Painters' methods to prevent colour changes described in sixteenth to early eighteenth century sources on oil painting techniques / Margriet van Eikema Hommes -- Thoughts on the use of the green glaze called 'copper-resinate' and its colour-changes / Renate Woudhuysen-Keller and Paul Woudhuysen -- The intriguing changes through restoration of a newly discovered painting by Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem / Annetje Boersma and Jeroen Giltaij -- The glow in late sixteenth and seventeenth century Dutch painting / Paul Taylor -- The Antwerp brand on paintings on panel / Jørgen Wadum -- Meaning and development of the ground-layer in seventeenth century painting / Nico van Hout -- Johannes Verspronck : the technique of a seventeenth century Haarlem portraitist / Ella Hendriks -- The Pekstok papers : lake pigments, prisons and paint-mills / Erma Hermens and Arie Wallert -- Aspects of drawing and painting in seventeenth century Spanish treatises / Zahira Veliz -- French painting technique in the seventeenth century and early eighteenth centuries and De La Fontaine's Académie de la peinture (Paris 1679) / Ann Massing -- Two still-life paintings by Jan van Huysum : an examination of painting technique in relation to documentary and technical evidence / Joris Dik and Arie Wallert -- Holman Hunt on himself : textual evidence in aid of technical analysis / Melissa R. Katz -- Posing, reposing and decomposing : life-size lay figures, living models and artists' colourmen in nineteenth century London / Sally Woodcock -- The Hafkenscheid Collection / Ineke Pey -- Artistic craftsmanship in the age of impatience / Cor Blok.