The painting View of Lake Sortedam from Dosseringen Looking towards the Suburb Norrebro outside C... more The painting View of Lake Sortedam from Dosseringen Looking towards the Suburb Norrebro outside Copenhagen from 1838 by the Danish artist Christen Kobke was subjected to technical investigation by IR imaging techniques, cross section analysis, XRF analysis, and Raman spectroscopy. The genesis of the painting is described as well as the results of the pigment analyses suggesting colour changes in certain areas of the composition related to deterioration of the pigment Prussian blue. The admixture of the blue pigment with white as a determining factor in the fading is proposed, and reports from experimental studies and early documentary sources regarding the permanence of Prussian blue are cited. The implications of the colour changes for the interpretation of the image are suggested.
he Danish artist Martinus C.W. Rørbye, a central igure of the Golden Age of Danish painting, work... more he Danish artist Martinus C.W. Rørbye, a central igure of the Golden Age of Danish painting, worked in Italy, Greece, the Middle East and the Balkans, as well as Norway and Denmark. Based on drawings made on his travels, Rørbye executed paintings on canvas. he question arises as to whether his underdrawing technique changed over time. As a favourite student of C.W. Eckersberg, Rørbye painted several copies after his master, some initially believed to be by Eckersberg himself. Would Rørbye at a more mature age carry out the same meticulous underdrawing when transferring his own composition to the canvas? Rørbye also often made repetitions of his own works, occasionally in up to four or ive identical versions. In the present study, three versions of one subject – a standing clergyman – are examined. his paper investigates the diferent approaches that Rørbye used, ranging from his early copies after his teacher to his autograph replicas of his own paintings. he aim is to demonstrate development in the artist's practice, and in so doing ofer a contribution to collectors and keepers of Rørbye's works when assessing the nature of his painting as either principal versions or replicas.
Mestermærker, monogrammer og kvalitetsmærker findes ofte præget eller stemplet på kunstværker fra... more Mestermærker, monogrammer og kvalitetsmærker findes ofte præget eller stemplet på kunstværker fra 1300-1700. En illustreret database med denne typer mræker er under etablering på Nederlands Kunsthistoriske Institut (RKD) i Den Haag
The painting View of Lake Sortedam from Dosseringen Looking towards the Suburb Norrebro outside C... more The painting View of Lake Sortedam from Dosseringen Looking towards the Suburb Norrebro outside Copenhagen from 1838 by the Danish artist Christen Kobke was subjected to technical investigation by IR imaging techniques, cross section analysis, XRF analysis, and Raman spectroscopy. The genesis of the painting is described as well as the results of the pigment analyses suggesting colour changes in certain areas of the composition related to deterioration of the pigment Prussian blue. The admixture of the blue pigment with white as a determining factor in the fading is proposed, and reports from experimental studies and early documentary sources regarding the permanence of Prussian blue are cited. The implications of the colour changes for the interpretation of the image are suggested.
he Danish artist Martinus C.W. Rørbye, a central igure of the Golden Age of Danish painting, work... more he Danish artist Martinus C.W. Rørbye, a central igure of the Golden Age of Danish painting, worked in Italy, Greece, the Middle East and the Balkans, as well as Norway and Denmark. Based on drawings made on his travels, Rørbye executed paintings on canvas. he question arises as to whether his underdrawing technique changed over time. As a favourite student of C.W. Eckersberg, Rørbye painted several copies after his master, some initially believed to be by Eckersberg himself. Would Rørbye at a more mature age carry out the same meticulous underdrawing when transferring his own composition to the canvas? Rørbye also often made repetitions of his own works, occasionally in up to four or ive identical versions. In the present study, three versions of one subject – a standing clergyman – are examined. his paper investigates the diferent approaches that Rørbye used, ranging from his early copies after his teacher to his autograph replicas of his own paintings. he aim is to demonstrate development in the artist's practice, and in so doing ofer a contribution to collectors and keepers of Rørbye's works when assessing the nature of his painting as either principal versions or replicas.
Mestermærker, monogrammer og kvalitetsmærker findes ofte præget eller stemplet på kunstværker fra... more Mestermærker, monogrammer og kvalitetsmærker findes ofte præget eller stemplet på kunstværker fra 1300-1700. En illustreret database med denne typer mræker er under etablering på Nederlands Kunsthistoriske Institut (RKD) i Den Haag
Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship is the first international loan exhibition devoted to t... more Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship is the first international loan exhibition devoted to the artists' collaborative works and an investigation of their working methods. Assembled here are some of the most important works of Brueghel and Rubens’s partnership—from the early war themes, to mythological landscapes and allegories, to iconic paintings of the Madonna and Child surrounded by garlands of fruit and flowers—as well as a select group of works executed with other collaborators, including Hans Rottenhammer, Hendrick de Clerck, Hendrick van Balen, and Frans Snyders. Together, these paintings reveal the nature of collaboration as practiced in the Netherlands in this period. What also emerges is the unique character of Brueghel and Rubens’s conceptual alliance—a rare partnership of equals, a complex and reciprocal relationship that gave rise to works of unparalleled delight.
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