Technical Bulletin 33

The National Gallery Technical Bulletin is a unique record of research carried out at the National Gallery. Drawing on the combined expertise of curators, conservators and scientists, it brings together a wealth of information about artists’ materials, practices and techniques.

Volume 33 Contents

• Colourless Powdered Glass as an Additive in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century European Paintings
• Niccolò di Pietro Gerini's Baptism Altarpiece: Technique, Conservation and Original Design
• Adolphe Monticelli: The Techniques and Materials of an Unfashionable Artist
• Renoir's Umbrellas Unfurled Again
• Past, Present, Memories: Analysing Edouard Vuillard's La Terrasse at Vasouy

About the authors

Ashok Roy is Director of Science; Helen Howard, Rachel Morrison, David Peggie, Marika Spring and Kate Stonor are members of the Scientific Department; Rachel Billinge, Britta New and Hayley Tomlinson are members of the Conservation Department; Dillian Gordon was until 2010 Curator of Italian Paintings before 1460; Christopher Riopelle is Curator of Post-1800 Paintings; Anne Robbins is Assistant Curator of Post-1800 Paintings; all at the National Gallery, London.