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Digital microscopy provides a magnified view of a surface, supporting and enhancing the results of spectroscopic analyses. It is used to assess the condition of the parchment support and paint layers, document damage, and suggest the presence of pigment mixtures, layers, glazes, and alteration compounds. This technique is essential for revealing painting methods, such as the modeling of draperies and flesh tones. Digital images are captured under the microscope using various lighting setups, including normal light, raking light (where the light is positioned at an angle close to the surface of the page), and transmitted illumination (with the light positioned behind the page).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Details from the Great Bible captured under the microscope<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Digital microscopy provides a magnified view of a surface, supporting and enhancing the results of spectroscopic analyses. It is used to assess the condition of the parchment support and paint layers, document damage, and suggest the presence of pigment mixtures, layers, glazes, and alteration compounds. This technique is essential for revealing painting methods, such as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-241","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/inplainsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/inplainsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/inplainsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/inplainsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/inplainsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/inplainsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/inplainsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/inplainsight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}