AnneliesvanLoonPostdoctoralresearcher(incollaborationwiththeMauritshuisTheHagueandtheRijksmuseumAmsterdam,supportedbytheNWOScience4ArtsProgram)
Tel:+31641366191E-mail:[email protected]
Researchinterests:MaterialsanalysisandageinganddeteriorationprocessesinOldMasterPaintings
REVISualizingLateREMBRANDT:DevelopingandApplyingNewImagingTechniques
RecentResearchactivities:
ThepaintingofSaulandDavidbyRembrandt(c.1652,Mauritshuis)wasexaminedwithamobilemacro-XRFscanner.TheNi:Coscatterplotsmadeitpossibletodistinguishbetweenthecobaltdrierfromalateraddition(magenta),andtwovarietiesofsmaltthatcorrespondtodifferentstagesinthepaintingprocess(redandgreen).
Paintreconstructionsweremadetostudytheeffectoftheuseofsmalt,acobalt-containingglasspigment,inRembrandt’spaintmixtures(incollaborationwithUvAMasterC&R).
Keypublications:- A.vanLoon,W.Genuit,C.Pottasch,S.Smelt,P.Noble,‘AnalysisofOldMasterpaintingsbydirecttemperature-resolvedtime-of-flightmassspectrometry:somerecentdevelopments’,MicrochemicalJournal,Vol126,May2016:406-414(online2015)- K.Janssens,G.VanDerSnickt,M.Alfeld,P.Noble,A.vanLoon,J.Delaney,D.Conover,J.Zeibel,J.Dik,‘Rembrandt’sSaulandDavid(c.1652):useofmultipletypesofsmaltevidencedbymeansofnon-destructiveimaging’,MicrochemicalJournal,Vol126,May2016:515-523(online2015)
OtherAchievements:- Conferencepresentation:‘Theapplicationofdirecttemperature-resolvedtime-of-flightmassspectrometry:conservationissues’,SeventhInternationalSymposiumontheSeparationandCharacterizationofNaturalandSyntheticMacromolecules(SCM-7),Amsterdam,30January2015- Conferencepresentation:‘AnalysisofOldMasterpaintingsbydirecttemperature-resolvedtime-of-flightmassspectrometry’,Technart2015,Catania,28April2015
Macro-XRDmeasurementsoftheJewishBride(c.1665)werecarriedoutin-situ,atthegalleriesoftheRijksmuseum,December2015,incollaborationwithresearchersfromTokyoUniversityofSciencethathadbroughttheirportableequipment.Wewereparticularlyinterestedinthearsenic-containingpigmentintheyellowsleeveofIsaac.
