On Gold

Ancient & Historic Metals: Conservation and Scientific Research, edited by David A. Scott, Jerry Podany, Brian B. Considine,

Cellini, Benvenuto. The Treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on Goldsmithing and Sculpture. New York: Dover Publications, 1967.

Mounier, Aurélie, Floréal Daniel, and Françoise Bechtel. “L’illusion de l’or.” ArcheoSciences. Revue d’archéométrie, no. 33 (December 31, 2009): 397–403

Smith, Cyril Stanley, and John G. Hawthorne. 1974. “Mappae Clavicula: A Little Key to the World of Medieval Techniques”. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 64 (4). American Philosophical Society: 1–128. doi:10.2307/1006317.

Jacobson, David M., Corinthian Bronze and the Gold of the Alchemists, Gold Bulletin 2000, 33 (2)

On Copper

Copper Alloys – Finishes; CDA;http://www.copper.org/applications/architecture/arch_dhb/copper_alloys/intro.html#ca8


Fitzgerald, K.P.; Nairn, J.; Atrens, A. (1998). "The chemistry of copper patination". Corrosion Science40 (12): 2029–2050. doi:10.1016/S0010-938X(98)00093-6.

Hiorns, Arthur, Metal- colouring and bronzing, London: Macmillan and co., 1907 https://archive.org/details/metalcolouringa00hiorgoog

Hughes, Richard and Rowe, Michael, (1982, 1991), The Coloring, Bronzing, and Patination of Metals; published by The Crafts Council (London, UK), ISBN 978-0-903798-60-0

Seale, Wayne (2007). The role of copper, brass, and bronze in architecture and design; ‘‘Metal Architecture,’’ May 2007

Theophilus John G. Hawthorne, Cyril Stanley Smith (Eds.), On Divers Arts, Dover Publishing Co., New York (1979)

Verità, Marco, and Sandro Zecchin. 2008. “Scientific Investigation of a Venetian Polychrome Goblet of the 16th Century”. Journal of Glass Studies 50. Corning Museum of Glass: 105–15. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24191323.
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On Alchemy

"Transmutation at Ingolstadt : making gold" in Ball, Philip. The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.


Bucklow, Spike. The Alchemy of Paint: Art, Science, and Secrets from the Middle Ages. London: Marion Boyars, 2009.

Cobb, Cathy, Monty L. Fetterolf, and Harold Goldwhite. The Chemistry of Alchemy: From Dragon's Blood to Donkey Dung, How Chemistry Was Forged. Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2014.


Linden, Stanton J. Mystical Metal of Gold: Essays on Alchemy and Renaissance Culture. New York: AMS Press, 2007.
Hopkins, Arthur John. 1918. “Earliest Alchemy”. The Scientific Monthly 6 (6). American Association for the Advancement of Science: 530–37. http://www.jstor.org/stable/22599.


(On Varnish)

Tingry,Pierre François, The Painter and Varnisher’s Guide, Or, A Treatise, Both in Theory and Practice, on the Art of Making and Applying Varnishes, on the Different Kinds of Painting ; and on the Method of Preparing Colours Both Simple and Compound ... London : Printed for G. Kearsley, by J. Taylor, 1804.

On Frames

Cunning, Robert, The Encyclopedia of Picture Framing Techniques, 2002

Dorge, Valerie, and F. Carey Howlett. Painted Wood: History & Conservation. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1998.

Mitchell, Paul, and Lynn Roberts. A History of European Picture Frames. Paul Mitchell Ltd., in Association with Merrell Holberton, __1996.__

Newbery, Timothy J., George Bisacca, and Laurence B. Kanter. Italian Renaissance Frames. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990.