The Cadmium Yellow Alert: Study Explains the Rapid Deterioration of One of Juan Mirò’s Favourite Colours

Researchers from the Politecnico di Milano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice are part of the team unravelling the causes of the degradation of cadmium yellow, used by the Spanish painter: the presence of zinc in the crystalline matrix of the pigment, the production process and the environmental conditions in which paint was stored. The [...]