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![Paint build-up of flesh, Croce di San Ranierino di Giunta Pisano: Cross-section in visible light, superimposed with details under UV illumination (left) and in the scanning electron microscope (back-scattering electron image, right), [1] Ground layer: gypsum, [2] isolation: presumably animal glue, [3] green base color: green earth, lead white and some blue (lapis lazuli), [4] brownish-green shadow color: green earth, lead white and some red (ochre and cinnabar), [5] ochre flesh tone: yellow and red ochre, cinnabar, some lead white and plant black, [6] varnish](http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ci/AL18g_QrHLl0CiOfVujHWDGj4R43N9ozkwsa2Z3UmQQYjT7Dqxr6hXyBAmMZgUFM7DGTBCoIIrWZw50)
Paint build-up of flesh, Croce di San Ranierino di Giunta Pisano: Cross-section in visible light, superimposed with details under UV illumination (left) and in the scanning electron microscope (back-scattering electron image, right), [1] Ground layer: gypsum, [2] isolation: presumably animal glue, [3] green base color: green earth, lead white and some blue (lapis lazuli), [4] brownish-green shadow color: green earth, lead white and some red (ochre and cinnabar), [5] ochre flesh tone: yellow and red ochre, cinnabar, some lead white and plant black, [6] varnish
top left: c. 1250; right: 2016
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
Munich, Germany
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- Title: Paint build-up of flesh, Croce di San Ranierino di Giunta Pisano: Cross-section in visible light, superimposed with details under UV illumination (left) and in the scanning electron microscope (back-scattering electron image, right), [1] Ground layer: gypsum, [2] isolation: presumably animal glue, [3] green base color: green earth, lead white and some blue (lapis lazuli), [4] brownish-green shadow color: green earth, lead white and some red (ochre and cinnabar), [5] ochre flesh tone: yellow and red ochre, cinnabar, some lead white and plant black, [6] varnish
- Date Created: top left: c. 1250; right: 2016
- Location: top left: Pisa, Museo Nazionale di San Matteo; right: Bayerische Staatsgemäldessammlungen – Doerner Institute, Munich
- Medium: top left: Medieval Tempera Painting on wood; right: cross-section
- Photo: top left: Roberto Bellucci, Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence; right: Bayerische Staatsgemäldessammlungen – Doerner Institute, Munich
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