Category: Optical Microscope

Microscopy for Art Examination: Polarizing Microscopy

This video is just an emotional collection of images. I say emotional because it is a pleasure looking at the mineral pigments under the microscope. Readings I suggest to get a serious handle of polarizing microscopy for art examination are ][1, 2, 3, 4]. And if you want to know EVERYTHING about pigments identification I

Microscopy for Art: Cross-Sections Preparation

Optical Microscopy is affordable and provides plenty of information for art documentation and examination. Though, my feeling is that it has been overlooked in academia and in education for conservation scientists and probably also for conservators. You don’t want to shoot a mosquito with a cannon, right? A good enough polarizing microscope goes for $5000 (much less on the