Fig. 3: VIS and UV images, and composite VIS hyperspectral distribution maps. | npj Heritage Science

Fig. 3: VIS and UV images, and composite VIS hyperspectral distribution maps.

From: Towards a classification system for Modernist painters’ reworking practices illustrated by James Ensor’s revised paintings

Fig. 3

From left to right and top to bottom: UIVFP image of Woman with Upturned Nose (1879, KMSKA), courtesy of A. Verburg, KMSKA. a Detail of the mouth under visible light. b Detail of the mouth under UV light showing a pink fluorescence from a red lake pigment. The same fluorescence is present in the earrings as well (details c, d). e Detail of Woman with Upturned nose showing an area where yellow and blue colored pencil has been used, a technique typical of Ensor’s later period. f Composite Vis hyperspectral distribution map and corresponding reflectance spectra of: red lake (magenta); vermilion (orange); Thenard blue (blue); lead white (black). g Red Lake distribution map and relative luminescence spectrum.

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