During the conservation treatment of Memling's Christ with Singing and Music-making Angels, three panel paintings that are among the most monumental works in early Netherlandish art, the conservators came across insoluble surface layers containing calcium oxalates. A very thin and irregular layer of this type, hardly visible to the naked eye, was spread across the surface of all three panels. A much thicker layer forming an opaque and highly disfiguring crust that obscured the composition (Figs. 15.1 and 15.7) was locally present on areas of dark copper-containing paint, where multiple layers of old discolored coatings and accretions remained in place before the most recent cleaning.
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Klaassen, L., van der Snickt, G., Legrand, S., Higgitt, C., Spring, M., Vanmeert, F., … Janssens, K. (2019). Characterization and Removal of a Disfiguring Oxalate Crust on a Large Altarpiece by Hans Memling (pp. 263–282). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90617-1_15
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