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As part of the international research of art-historians about Rembrandt and his time, 15 paintings of the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin have been investigated by neutron activation autoradiography. The improved experimental technique is explained and results are described for a painting by Jan Vermeer van Delft.
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Fischer, CO., Laurenze, C., Leuther, W., Slusallek, K. (1987). Autoradiography of Oil Paintings at the Berlin Experimental Reactor (BER II). In: Barton, J.P., Farny, G., Person, JL., Röttger, H. (eds) Neutron Radiography. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3871-7_64
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