{"id":9176,"date":"2013-07-21T20:02:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T01:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=9176"},"modified":"2013-07-21T20:02:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T01:02:32","slug":"those-museum-scientists-can-do-amazing-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2013\/07\/21\/those-museum-scientists-can-do-amazing-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Those museum scientists can do amazing things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two articles which appeared in major newspapers on Friday July 19, 2013\u2014one about Diana Widmaier-Picasso\u2019s attempt to compile a catalogue raisonne of her grandfather\u2019s sculptures (<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424127887323297504578579824284030506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cA Picasso Heir\u2019s Epic Hunt\u201d<\/a>, by Kelly Crow, Wall Street Journal) and the other about the likely destruction by burning of seven paintings that were stolen from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/19\/world\/europe\/romanians-tale-has-art-world-fearing-worst.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Romanian\u2019s Tale Has Art World Fearing Worst<\/a>\u201d, by Liz Alderman, The New York Times)\u2014provide a glimpse into the work that museum scientists do. Those investigators can analyze the composition of a group of sculptures \u201cto see if they contain enough of the same elements to confirm they indeed were made from the same metallurgical recipe and therefore cast by the same foundry at around the same time\u2014and not years later\u201d and they can determine that the ash found in a wood burning stove contains \u201cmaterial that classical French, Dutch, Spanish and other European artists typically used to prepare canvases for oil painting as well as the remains of colors like red, yellow, green, blue, gray.\u201d If you were reading these articles and didn\u2019t already know what else they can do, wouldn\u2019t you want to find out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two articles which appeared in major newspapers on Friday July 19, 2013\u2014one about Diana Widmaier-Picasso\u2019s attempt to compile a catalogue raisonne of her grandfather\u2019s sculptures (\u201cA Picasso Heir\u2019s Epic Hunt\u201d, by Kelly Crow, Wall Street Journal) and the other about the likely destruction by burning of seven paintings that were stolen from the Kunsthal museum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2013\/07\/21\/those-museum-scientists-can-do-amazing-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Those museum scientists can do amazing things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":9499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}