Helping First-Year Students Get Illuminating Views of Renaissance Art from xrf elements Watch Video
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Description: Students in Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art Christopher Platts’s first-year writing seminar, “Art and Science in the Age of Leonardo and Galileo,” spent a recent afternoon at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center to watch Joseph Tanski, Professor and Chair of Chemistry on the Matthew Vassar, Jr. Chair, use an x-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer to determine what elements were present in various pigments in a 15th Century painting titled 'Crucifixion', currently on display.
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