Revealing lost 16th-century royal emblems on two Andrea Amati’s violins using XRF scanning

Revealing lost 16th-century royal emblems on two Andrea Amati’s violins using XRF scanning

Abstract A key issue in understanding artefacts from the past is the loss of readability of the signs they may have borne. The two 16th-century musical instruments studied here—rare Italian violins made by Andrea Amati (c.1505-1577) in Cremona—bear remains of painted heraldic emblems, which are bare...

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Main Authors: Marie Radepont, Jean-Philippe Échard, Matthias Ockermüller, Hortense de la Codre, Oulfa Belhadj
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-11-01
Series:Heritage Science
Subjects:
Heraldry
X-ray fluorescence
Elemental imaging
Reconstruction
Spanish Court
Andrea Amati
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40494-020-00460-6

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