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Forschungsprojekt
Naturwissenschaften

Revealing Rubens’ creative processes by MA-XRF scanning Het Pelsken (at KHM), Medusa (at KHM), Medusa (in Brno)

This research project explores Rubens' works using Macro-XRF scanning, focusing on Het Pelsken and two Head of Medusa versions to analyze their creation and connections.

Forschung abgeschlossen
Haupt der Medusa

Haupt der Medusa, um 1613, Inv. Nr. GG 3834

Über das Projekt

This project aims at further exploring Rubens work (especially the paint layers) through Macro-XRF scanning, an innovative technique that is particularly well suited for these purposes. In particular, we propose to focus on three of Rubens’ works that currently generate a lot of attention among Rubens scholars: Het Pelsken (Portrait of Hélène Fourment) in the KHM, Head of the Medusa in the KHM and another version of the Head of the Medusa in the Moravian Gallery in Brno.

These cases are considered exemplary, because of their iconic status and their dating from different periods of the painter's production. In summary, we aim to enhance our knowledge on how these works were produced and their relationship to one another through a comparative technical study of both Medusa paintings combined with in-depth art historical research.

Projektleitung

  • Gerlinde Gruber
  • Elke Oberthaler

Projektmitarbeit

  • Ina Slama
  • Terezie Vávrová
  • Petr Tomášek
  • Geert Van der Snickt
  • Koen Janssens
  • Nouchka De Keyser

Finanzierung
Grant Government of Flanders

Projektdauer
2017 – 2019

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