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Article

Software “Pinxit”: Hail Magister Leonardo!

by
Gleb Zilberstein
1,*,
Roman Zilberstein
1,
Svetlana Zilberstein
1,
Uriel Maor
1 and
Pier Giorgio Righetti
2,*
1
Spectrophon Ltd., Oppenheimer 7, Rehovot 7670107, Israel
2
Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Via Mancinelli 7, 20131 Milano, Italy
*
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Heritage 2021, 4(2), 917-936; https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage4020050
Submission received: 8 April 2021 / Revised: 17 May 2021 / Accepted: 17 May 2021 / Published: 25 May 2021
(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers)
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In the present report, we offer a novel way for studying (via optical and digital means) features in Renaissance and Leonardo’s (and of course any other painter who followed this canon) paintings, based on a software that separately recognizes white, red, green, blue colors and measures the intensity of single bright spots in canvasses. After mapping the distribution of individual colors, the software proposes a trajectory considering the different geometrical and topological aspects. What we propose here is not just a variant of known methods for discovering the color distribution in a painting; on the contrary, it represents a new way to find unknown parameters in any Renaissance painting. In addition, via multispectral and hyperspectral analyses and image processing, the developed software permitted us to monitor the decay of some pigments in these canvasses at macro- and microscopic levels.
Keywords: Leonardo; golden section; Madonna Litta; Madonna Benois; Madonna del Garofano; La Belle Ferronnière; azurite; malachite Leonardo; golden section; Madonna Litta; Madonna Benois; Madonna del Garofano; La Belle Ferronnière; azurite; malachite

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Zilberstein, G.; Zilberstein, R.; Zilberstein, S.; Maor, U.; Righetti, P.G. Software “Pinxit”: Hail Magister Leonardo! Heritage 2021, 4, 917-936. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage4020050

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Zilberstein G, Zilberstein R, Zilberstein S, Maor U, Righetti PG. Software “Pinxit”: Hail Magister Leonardo! Heritage. 2021; 4(2):917-936. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage4020050

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Zilberstein, Gleb, Roman Zilberstein, Svetlana Zilberstein, Uriel Maor, and Pier Giorgio Righetti. 2021. "Software “Pinxit”: Hail Magister Leonardo!" Heritage 4, no. 2: 917-936. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage4020050

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Zilberstein, G., Zilberstein, R., Zilberstein, S., Maor, U., & Righetti, P. G. (2021). Software “Pinxit”: Hail Magister Leonardo! Heritage, 4(2), 917-936. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage4020050

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