2005

Pigmentum provided a major contribution to the highly successful ‘Art and Microscopy’ conference held by the Royal Microscopical Society at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Co-organised by Dr. Nicholas Eastaugh, a number of team members also presented papers on a range of topics. Short abstracts of the various talks will be available shortly, while the papers themselves will appear across three issues of the RMS Proceedings during 2006.

This marks the beginning of an ambitious programme of publication for the Project that will include research that could not be included in the Pigment Compendium as well as new areas of study.

You can download the various papers presented by Pigmentum Project members here.

It is an honour for Pigmentum to announce that it is formally joining up with the University of Oxford, becoming a semi-autonomous research group within the School of Archaeology.

Pigmentum has had numerous links with the University for some time, especially the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art and the Department of Materials. However, this link will allow us to develop these ties at a deeper level and also provide means for extending the research we do.

Great care has been taken in the production of the Pigment Compendium. However, as with all works on this scale, mistakes have crept in. Consequently, we have published a short list of corrections which you can download PDF document).

If you notice further errors of this kind, please notify us so that we may rectify them in future editions. We hope that this will constitute the first of a series of updates that provides our readers with the latest information on historical pigments.

We are happy to announce that the Pigment Compendium CD-ROM is now available. Containing the material from both books—the Dictionary of Historical Pigments and the Optical Microscopy of Historical Pigments—as well as powerful search tools and other features, this interactive CD-ROM can be obtained through the publishers, Elsevier, and directly from the Project.