Angelita Mairani, Alessio Montarsolo, Enrico Pedemonte, Elisabetta Princi, Silvia Vicini, Paolo Bensia: La tavolozza di Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo

Angelita Mairani, Alessio Montarsolo, Enrico Pedemonte, Elisabetta Princi, Silvia Vicini, Paolo Bensia: La tavolozza di Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo

Angelita Mairani, Alessio Montarsolo, Enrico Pedemonte, Elisabetta Princi, Silvia Vicini, Paolo Bensia: La tavolozza di Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo. Analisi chimica dei materiali pittorici

With the occasion of the inauguration of a museum on Giuseppe Pelizza, in Volpedo, a diagnostic campaign has been conducted in order to obtain information about the painting materials used by the artist. Chemical characterisations have been realised both on colours in tubes found in artist’s atelier, and on some fragments collected from one of his paintings. The results are interesting in terms of identification of Pelizza’s palette and pictorial technique, but also as a check of the industrial colours at disposal at the end of XIX century, of their purity and possible adulterations.