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Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's Gandhara Scroll, one of the world's oldest Buddhist manuscripts, has been painstakingly preserved and digitized, making it available to readers online after years of delicate work.
Posted in: Preservation, Preservation and Conservation
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Pre-modern artists used almost anything to create vibrant colors for art and fabrics: bug guts, squid bones, shredded wood, hardened tree sap, walnut rinds, lye, tannic acid, iron sulfate, wine and, um, urine. Today, the Library’s Preservation Research and Testing Division is now recreating those colors the old-fashioned way as part of a newly developing field of preservation science.
Posted in: Preservation and Conservation
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Diego Rivera paintings of the Mayan creation myth, "Popol Vuh," are being physically analyzed by Library curators and scientists to understand the artist's materials and techniques.
Posted in: Preservation and Conservation