A Multivarlite Analysis of Renaissance Portrait Medals

An Expanded Nomenclature for Defining Alloy Composition

Bibliographic Data

ID8354496
AuthorsL A GLINSMAN (National Gallery of Art), Lee‐Ann C Hayek (0000-0002-4266-3270, Smithsonian Institution)
Year1993
Volume35
Issue1
Pages49-67
Publication date1993-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArchaeometry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-813X • E-ISSN: 1475-4754
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-4754.1993.tb01023.x
OpenAlexW1977224138
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited6

This study gathered and reported compositional and descriptive analyses of over 200 Italian Renaissance portrait medals in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington A statistical model was developed for allocation of these medals into meaningful assemblages, using the surface alloy composition, and an expanded nomenclature was formulated. Copper, zinc, tin and lead were the primary elements found to combine to form a wide range of alloys, Common impurities were discovered to be significantly lower in the sixteenth‐century medals when compared with those in the fifteenth‐century medals. Renaissance medallists had an extensive knowledge of metallurgy and could produce a variety of alloys without the use of modern technology

Art · Art history · Biology · Botany · Composition (language) · Fifteenth · Literature · Metallurgy · Nomenclature · Portrait · Taxonomy (biology) · The Renaissance · Classics · Conservation Techniques and Studies · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis · Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping · Materials Science

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