Survey on Van Gogh’s early painting technique through the non-invasive and multi analytical study of Head of peasant by Catherine Defeyt, Dominique Marechal, Francisca Vandepitte, David Strivay

“…Abstract The strong lighting of the face against a dark background, the bold brushstroke and the model’s expressiveness that characterize Van Gogh’s Head of peasant, belonging to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium collections, are typical features found in the peasant heads studies painted in Nuenen, in March–April 1885, in prevision of the well-known The Potato Eaters. …”
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Revealing Gauguin’s practice: multi-analytical approach of the Portrait de Suzanne Bambridge by C. Defeyt, E. Van Vyve, F. Leen, F. Vandepitte, B. Gilbert, E. Herens, D. Strivay

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Discovery and multi-analytical study of the last missing quarter from René Magritte’s La pose enchantée by Catherine Defeyt, Elodie Herens, Frederik Leen, Francisca Vandepitte, David Strivay

“…Abstract The last missing quarter of La pose enchantée, a 1927 Magritte’s oil painting disappeared in 1932, has been finally found beneath Dieu n’est pas un saint, picture painted by the Belgian surrealist between 1935 and 1936, conserved at the Brussels Magritte Museum (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium) (inv. 11681). The in-depth study conducted on Dieu n’est pas un saint by means of non-invasive and complementary imaging and analytical techniques has allowed formulating substantiated conclusions regarding this double painting. …”
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Rethinking Jacques-Louis David’s Marat assassiné through material evidences by Catherine Defeyt, Dominique Marechal, Francisca Vandepitte, David Strivay

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Trompeuses séductions. La Chute d’Icare des Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique by Dominique Allart, Christina Currie

“…The scientific examination of the Fall of Icarus of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels leads to the conclusion that the work is not by the hand of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, as with a second version in the Van Buuren Museum (Brussels). …”
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Discovery and material study of the missing feet part from Magritte’s L’évidence éternelle of 1954 by Catherine Defeyt, Francisca Vandepitte, Elodie Herens, David Strivay

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Paul Delvaux: The Study of Nine Paintings by Non-Invasive Methods by Edène Derzelle, David Strivay, Antoine Defeyt, Sarah-Jane Klein, Francisca Vandepitte, Catherine Defeyt

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