I gialli di piombo, stagno, antimonio: le opere di Poussin a Saraceni

Abstract

In order to characterize the yellow pigments utilized by Carlo Saraceni in The Martyrdom St Erasmus (1612-14), Cathedral of Gaeta (Lt),and by Nicolas Poussin in The Gedeone’s Victory over Madianiti (1623-26) and The Martyrdom St Erasmus both finding at Vatican’s Museum had been applied: micro-Raman spectroscopy, fluorescence X, SEM with micro-analysis EDS, observations at optic-mineralogical microscope and spectro colorimetric analysis; some of these methods were applied on artworks directly, others by micro-pattern taken over paintings. The same investigations had been applied also over others patterns of yellow pigments having the same typology of materials employed by painters and that had been retrieved by commerce from the firms of Kremer and Zecchi.