Sources and serendipity: testimonies of artists' practice

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Virtues and vices in late medieval art productions: the painter's progress to hell / Manfred Lautenschlager -- Codicological indicators of practical medieval artists' recipes / Mark Clarke -- Impossible recipes / Spike Bucklow -- Romanian handbooks on manuscript illumination in the 18th century / Marta Ursescu and Sorin Ciovica -- Art for war : washing materials and techniques in Spanish military mapmaking / Stefanos Kroustallis -- Copper pigments in medieval times : green, blue, greenish-blue or bluish-green? / Catarina Miguel, Ana Claro, João A. Lopes and Maria João Melo -- Documentary sources for the use of moulds in the production of tin relief : cause and effect / Jilleen Nadolny -- Writing recipes for non-specialists c.1300 : the Anglo-Latin Secretum philosophorum, Glasgow MS Hunterian 110 / Mark Clarke -- Comparative analysis of painting recipes : a new contribution to the study of the texts of the Strasbourg family / Sylvie Neven -- Images of copper engravers and plate printers in their workshops 1545-1645 : 'One picture tells more than a thousand words' / Ad Stijnman Fine art materials in Vigani's cabinet (1704) at Queens' College, Cambridge / Lisa Wagner -- The master's own hand? Contribution to the study of Rubens' retouching of monumental formats / Hélène Dubois -- Oudry's painted menagerie: a technical study with reference to the artist's lectures on painting technique / Alan Phenix, Tiarna Doherty, Anna Schönemann and Adriana Rizzo -- Studying the artistic process : Kupelwieser's fresco series History of Austria / Sigrid Eyb-Green, Wolfgang Baatz and Werner Kitlitschka -- En plein soleil : Whistler, nature and memory / Erma Hermens and Margaret F. MacDonald -- 'To acquire a good name' : specimens of 19th-century Persian tile-making from the Tehran workshop of the master potter Ali Muhammad Isfahani / Lore Troalen, Ina Reiche, Stefan Röhrs, Boris Pretzel, Lucia Burgio, Bhavesh Shah, Stéphane Peschard, Clotilde Boust, Jim Tate, Graham Martin and Friederike Voigt -- À la recherche du pigment perdu : a project on less well-known 19th-century pigments / Hartmut Kutzke and Doris Oltrogge -- Technique and process in the papers of David Smith / Richard Mullholland -- Challenging the material : the artist's interview as a documentary source in the 1980s and 1990s / Paivi Kyllonen-Kunnas -- Study of materials and techniques used in a 15th-century Romanian illuminated manuscript / Ileana Zizi Balta, Gheorghe Niculescu, Irina Petroviciu, Bruno Brunetti, Laura Cartechini, Francesca Rosi, Brenda Doherty, Alessandro Sassolini, Mihai Lupu and Ileana Cretu Tracing the history of wall paintings through visual documents : the vault painting of the main hall at Verdala Palace, Malta / Theodora Fardi, Roberta De Angelis, Bernadine Scicluna and Daniel Vella -- Study of a Portuguese 18th-century manuscript / Ana Freitas, Ana Claro, Maria João Melo, Conceição Casanova and Laura Moura -- De/re-constructing Turner for research projects at Tate / Joyce H. Townsend, Jacob Thomas, Charlotte Caspers, Monserrat Pis Marcos, Anna Brookes, Bronwyn Ormsby, Stephen Hackney and Andrew Lerwill -- The archives of Blockx, an Antwerp family of chemist-colourmen, founded 1865 / Brian Dudley Barrett.