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Shedding new light on old art

05 Dec 2013
Taken from the December 2013 issue of Physics World

Pump–probe microscopy has recently been used to measure the 3D distribution of a pigment in Puccio Capanna’s 14th-century masterpiece The Crucifixion. As Martin Fischer explains, this laser-based technique can give art conservators and historians information that is impossible to get by other means

The Crucifixion by Puccio Capanna. (Courtesy: North Carolina Museum of Art/Gift of the Samuel H Kres

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