The seventh volume of Facture, our first to be published digitally, is fittingly devoted to the theme of change. Six peer-reviewed essays examine developments in conservation techniques and imaging technologies, the evolution of a printed image from initial drawing to copies made after the final design, and observable changes to works of art made by the artists, later actors, or environmental conditions.

Contents

Reflections on the Suger Chalice: New Observations and Technical Analysis
Dylan Smith and Therese Martin

Baroque Twists and Turns: Material Evidence and the Network of Makers of a Seventeenth-Century Drawing of Giovanni Grosso
Fulvia Zaninelli, Matthew J. Westerby, and Kimberly Schenck

The Re-Treatments of Rembrandt’s Man with a Sheet of Music: A Structural Conservation Review, 1927–1969
Sue Ann Chui

Evaluation of Reflectance Transformation Imaging vs. Photogrammetry for Characterizing Painting Surfaces
Kurt Heumiller, Sue Ann Chui, and Gregory Williams

James Van Der Zee’s Portrait Photographs: Technical Insights from the National Gallery’s Prints
Laura C. Panadero, Joan M. Walker, and Suzanne Q. Lomax

Pigment Alteration and Color Change
Barbara H. Berrie