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Terracottas Around Clodion: Chemical and Mineralogical Studies and Thermoluminescence Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Frédéric Saltron ,
Anne Bouquillon  and
Guirec Querré
Frédéric Saltron
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Recherche des Musées de France, Palais du Louvre 75041 Paris cedex 01.
Anne Bouquillon
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Recherche des Musées de France, Palais du Louvre 75041 Paris cedex 01.
Guirec Querré
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Recherche des Musées de France, Palais du Louvre 75041 Paris cedex 01.
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Abstract

Forty one terracottas by Clodion, Marin and P. Michel, all french sculptors of the XVIIIth century, have been analyzed in the L.R.M.F.

Two different kinds of analysis have been performed.

The results obtained by thermoluminescence allowed to partition the works between one group contemporaneous with the Clodion period and the other one consisting of posterior works. Although the lowest limit in the use of thermoluminescence seems to be reached, the conclusions are, more often than not, in agreement with the hypotheses of the curator.

X-Ray diffractometry, microprobe analysis and ion-beam methods (PIXE) have led to distinguish between siliceous pastes corresponding to artifacts created in Paris and carbonated pastes gathering terracottas made during the italian stays of the artists.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 267: Symposium J – Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology III , 1992 , 621
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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