Exploring the Material History of Paintings. This compendium of original essays features discoveries made by an international team of researchers scholar of applied radiation sciences, anthropology, art history, biomedical engineering, as well as conservators, conservation scientists, forensic art historians, and curators who examined paintings from the collection of the McMaster Museum of Art, including works by Vincent Van Gogh, Alexander Rodchenko and Peter Paul Rubens workshop. The result is a multidisciplinary, collaborative study of paintings as complex physical objects whose component parts tell us a story about their history.
