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This volume to be published in August 2014 reflects and celebrates the life of Karin Groen (1941-2013) and her work in the scientific examination of paintings. It contains a selection of her ground breaking articles published in this field over the past decades, and will continue to be a source of inspiration for a new generation of scientists, restorer-conservators and art historians. She was particularly involved in the Rembrandt Research Project, systematically examining Rembrandt's paintings and the knowledge she gleaned of the composition and build-up of (quartz) ground layers provided useful additional information for the attribution of paintings to Rembrandt and his workshop. Her methods, in which paintings are examined in close collaboration between the scientist and the restorer-conservator, always focussed on the question 'How did the artist do it?'. This book includes studies not only on paintings by Rembrandt but also on those painted by Frans Hals, Judith Leyster and Johannes Vermeer as well as studies of changes in painter’s materials, such as the pigments in Dutch still-life paintings, and in works by Lucas Van Leyden, Claude Lorrain and others.

Conservation. Restoration --- Painting --- Leyster, Judith --- Vermeer, Johannes --- Hals, Frans --- Art --- Histoire --- Technique --- Conservation et restauration --- Histoire. --- Technique. --- Conservation et restauration.

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Important masterpieces in museum collections, such as the paintings by Rembrandt, often have the dubious honour of having undergone numerous conservation treatments in the past. Because of the significance of the paintings, these treatments are generally well documented. For example, The Anatomy Lesson of Dt Nicolaes Tulp has undergone twenty-three documented treatments, while those of The Night Watch amount to twenty-five. Rembrandt?s paintings are found in major collections all over the world. Every country has its own traditions, developments and approaches to conservation with important restorers having played a key role in the treatment and appearance of Rembrandt paintings. In Rembrandt Conservation Histories, experts address aspects relating to the conservation history of paintings by Rembrandt and other 17th-century Dutch masters, raising awareness of how the appearance and condition of paintings by Rembrandt can be explained in part by their treatment history. Published in association with the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

Painting, Dutch --- Conservation and restoration --- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, --- Rāmbirānt, --- Rembrandt Garmens van Reĭn, --- Rembrandt van Rijn --- Rembrandt van Reĭn, --- Lun-po-lang, --- Rembrandt, --- Van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon, --- Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van, --- Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, --- Reimbrandt, --- Rembrandt van Rijn, --- רמברנדט --- רמברנדט הרמנסזון ואן־ריין, --- رامبرانت --- Conservation. Restoration --- Painting --- restoration [process] --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- preserving --- Rembrandt --- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn --- Rembrandt Garmens van Reĭn --- Rembrandt van Reĭ --- Lun-po-lan --- Van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon --- Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van --- Rembrandt Harmensz van Rin, --- Reimbrand --- Dutch painting