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This volume is intended for the needs of police investigators, general criminalists in the smaller police laboratories, and students of criminalistics and police science in mind

The book offers the only comprehensive discussion available on materials, techniques, and condition issues in western easel paintings from medieval times to the present. It includes detailed case studies of 25 paintings by artists from Giotto and Leonardo to Vermeer, Degas, and Pollock. The extensive illustrations are drawn from more than 45 international museums, the artists represented range from a Byzantine master and a Mexican colonial painter to living artists, including Helen Frankenthaler, Jacob Lawrence, and Robert Ryman. The book will fascinate and benefit beginning or advanced students of art history and their teachers, as well as painters, collectors, museum docents, and conservators. Those who have known paintings primarily from books, slides, and photograph reproductions will be exposed to a new dimension of their study.