TY - JOUR A1 - Hahn, Oliver A1 - Bretz, Simone A1 - Hagnau, Carola A1 - Ranz, Hans-Jörg A1 - Wolff, Timo T1 - Pigments, dyes, and black enamel - the colorants of reverse paintings on glass JF - Archaeological and anthropological sciences N2 - Nondestructive analyses of medieval reverse paintings on glass revealed the same dyes and pigments customarily used in panel paintings. However, there is one exception: the black colorant is not a carbon-based pigment, but black enamel. In this respect, the stylistic as well as the technical influence of stained glass artwork can clearly be seen on reverse paintings on glass. However, there is a crucial difference: in reverse paintings, the black enamel is not fired onto the glass but painted (cold painting). Additional analyses confirmed these findings. Based on these results, the art form "reverse painting on glass" has technically to be characterized as a mixture of "stained glass" and "panel painting" that nonetheless develops into a genre of its own. KW - Archaeometry KW - Cultural heritage KW - Non-destructive testing PY - 2009 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-009-0021-4 SN - 1866-9557 SN - 1866-9565 VL - 1 IS - 4 SP - 263 EP - 271 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ; Heidelberg AN - OPUS4-20877 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -