Year: 2024
Type: other
Abstract: Martín saw art taking shape around her�literally.Her father was a sculptor, but she didn't develop the same artistic skill.Instead, her passions leaned toward physics, math, and chemistry.Today, she's found her calling as a cultural heritage scientist at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, devising techniques to analyze aging works of art."I cannot make it," Álvarez-Martín admits."But I can conserve it!"Her drive inspired her to borrow a technique from medical imaging and deploy it in her art conservation work.Last year, her team reported using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI- MSI) to precisely map out where compounds occur in the thin cross section of a painting, a method that could be used to glean molecular details about each layer of paint that artists or previous conservators have laid down (Anal. Chem. 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c03992
Source: ACS Central Science
Author: Jonathan Feakins
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4402402064