We were pleased to welcome Lisa Sertic on her internship from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Lisa has been studying green earth pigments, developing systematic ways of differentiating glauconite from celadonite. We hope to publish her methodology in the near future.
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The Pigmentum Project is pleased and proud to announce that their magnum opus, the Pigment Compendium, has been published.
The two volumes—the Dictionary of Historical Pigments and the Optical Microscopy of Historical Pigments—are now available through the publishers, Elsevier, and directly from the Project. We hope to release the CD-ROM, which contains both books in an easy-to-use interactive format, early in the new year.
The Pigmentum Project are proud to announce that they have won the L’Oréal Art and Science of Colour Bronze Prize for their groundbreaking work in the field of pigment research.
Awarded each year by the L’Oréal Art and Science Foundation, the prize recognises those who contribute to innovative exchanges between art and science. The prize is now in its seventh year, and had an especially strong field with 285 entrants.
The team has just returned from Japan, where they received the prize and gave a talk on their work. More detailed information on the prize is available at the official website.
This summer the Pigmentum Project was happy to host David Sethatho and Anna Gilpin on placements from the Forensic Science department, King’s College London. David spent his time with us doing Raman and FTIR analysis while Anna performed LCMS on samples from our collection for the Pigmentum database.
Welcome to our new website! With the release of the Pigment Compendium imminent, our revamped website is packed with information on our publications and mission, as well as exciting details on new projects such as the Lazurite Database.
If you’re interested in finding out more about the Project, visit the About section, and if you have any comments or queries about the new site please don’t hesitate to email the Site Administrator at this address: admin (at) pigmentum.org.
Pigmentum was happy to host Maria Cardoso and Ina St. George on their internships from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Maria was analysing Pigmentum’s collection by EDX, while Ina was researching pigments from the Roman villa at Bignor, Sussex.