Chemists have for the first time established how Rembrandt applied special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a 'golden' paint. Chemists at the Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam (UvA ...

After examining these details with high-tech instruments, they found the particles contained pararealgar, a naturally occurring arsenic sulfide mineral. To create the perfect reflective paint for ...

Chemists at the Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have for the first time established how Rembrandt applied special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a ‘golden’ paint. Using ...

Researchers also compared The Night Watch to paint samples from other artists in the Rijksmuseum’s collection known to use arsenic sulfides, finding a similar pigment mixture in a painting by ...

New research into the paint Rembrandt used to represent glistening embroidery details in “The Night Watch” (1642) shows evidence of rarer arsenic sulfide mineral variants instead of orpiment ...

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When they dried the soil out, the researchers decreased the levels of arsenic and methane. Sulfide in the soil was oxidized and became sulfate, which is no longer a solid phase, allowing cadmium ...

Chemists at the Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have for the first time established how Rembrandt applied special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a "golden" paint. Using ...