The versatility of modern commercial house paints has ensured their use in a broad range of applications, including the protection and decoration of historic bu

Paint formulations and historyAnalysis and characterizationTreatmentsCleaning issuesBehavior and propertiesPosters.

Outlines the techniques that are currently employed to analyze the synthetic resins used in modern painting materials, such as pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass

Artists’ oil paints have become increasingly complex and diverse in the 20th Century, applied by artists in a variety of ways. This has led to a number of iss

This volume represents 27 peer-reviewed papers presented at the ICOP 2013 symposium which will help conservators and curators recognise problems and interpret v