Programme start: 2005 CICRP: Nicolas Bouillon Several accidents, in France as well as abroad, have revealed a particular sensitivity to heat in certain materials of pictorial layers, leading to considerable degradation of canvas collections situated in spaces adjoining an outbreak of fire. Several examples of paintings having
Programme start: 2006 CICRP: Christine Benoit Coloured layers, most often red or brown, have been used in the 17th and 18th to prepare the canvases of Western easel paintings. These preparation layers consist of iron oxides, ochres or earths, used with an oil binder, alone or in
Programme start: 2012 CICRP: Christine Benoit (director, pictorial materials), Emilie Hubert (imaging) This programme concerns reverse glass painting or painting fixed under glass, with several perspectives: The study of technological aspects, on the one hand, since the techniques used have not always been well identified (for example,
Programme start: 2011 CICRP: Nicolas Bouillon Partnership(s): Central Microscopy Facility of the University of Provence Analysis of the constituent organic materials of paints (binders, varnishes, glues) of particular complex character as a result of the small quantity of the available sample and chemical modifications undergone by these materials
