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Four Paintings Magnified



Through a period of two years an international research team has studied four almost identical paintings from the 16th century. The four paintings examined are alike yet different variations on a theme – Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple and were made with different purposes, answering to the demands of a booming 16th-century Antwerp art market.



Stereo Microscopy

Apr 23, 2012

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Wilhelm Fabry – Surgeon, Inventor, and Publicist



Before academic education for medical practitioners became the norm, barber-surgeons treated wounds and performed minor operations as members of the tradesmen’s guild as late as the end of the 16th century. The surgeon Wilhelm Fabry, born in Hilden in 1560, Germany, was not content with this classification of his profession, however.



Surgical Microscopy

Aug 13, 2010

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Restoration in an Open Workshop



For more than a year from August 2007 through October 2008 museum visitors of the Statens Museum for Kunst, the Danish National Gallery in Copenhagen, were able to experience an open conservation studio in the exhibition area. The reason for bringing the conservators and all their equipment into the exhibition rooms of the museum was the conservation, restoration and technical research of Jacob Jordaens’ (1593 – 1678) early masterpiece “The Tribute Money. Peter Finding the Silver Coin in the Mouth of the Fish”, also known as “The Ferry Boat to Antwerp”.



Conservation

Dec 15, 2009

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