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. 2019 Aug 23;5(8):eaaw7794. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw7794

Fig. 5. Christ and the Virgin Enthroned with Forty Saints: Identification and mapping of azurite and mixite in blue areas.

Fig. 5

(A) Color image of the Master of the Dominican Effigies’ Christ and the Virgin Enthroned with Forty Saints (ca. 1340), Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art. (B) Color detail studied. (C) Map of azurite obtained from the reflectance spectrum (H). (D) Elemental map of zinc (Kα). (E) Elemental map of As (Kβ). (F) Map of the As─OH reflectance feature attributed to mixite and the spectral features of azurite in visible and NIR (I). (G) Mid-IR reflectance spectra of the dark blue and light blue areas, in addition to mixite and azurite standards.