Researchers from the Universities of Antwerp, Perugia and Delft together with museum staff have painstakingly examined Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam). He painted this iconic work, a composition dominated by yellow tints with some orange and blue accents, in 1889 in Arles, France.
F. Vanmeert (researcher at the University of Antwerp and main author of the study): “We developed a new, non-destructive method of chemical imaging based on X-ray diffraction that permits to identify all crystalline pigments with a high degree of certainty. ...
