{"id":3377,"date":"2014-05-21T17:12:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T22:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2014-05-27T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T16:14:09","slug":"pearl-of-venice-on-our-x-ray-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/2014\/05\/21\/pearl-of-venice-on-our-x-ray-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearl of Venice on our X-ray table"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carefully placing the painting on an image receptor. The light field shows the section to be x-rayed.<\/p><\/div>\n

As part of the restoration of the Joslyn Art Museum\u2019s \u201cPearl of Venice\u201d oil painting by Thomas Moran, they needed a high-quality radiograph.<\/p>\n

What better place to do that than right here at The Nebraska Medical Center and UNMC?<\/p>\n

It’s not often one is asked to photograph a famous painting as it\u2019s being x-rayed. But I was, and I did! It was quite a thrill to see the painting up close and seemingly vulnerable without its frame.<\/p>\n

And what an opportunity for Justin Williams, a 2nd<\/sup>-year Radiography student who will go on to CVIT in the fall! He helped the team who produced the radiographs: James Temme, associate director of Radiation Science Technology Education, Tim Stack, radiologic technologist at The Nebraska Medical Center, and Jolene Horihan, lead radiologic Technologist at The Nebraska Medical Center.<\/p>\n

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Justin Williams, Tim Stack, Jolene Horihan, and James Temme<\/p><\/div>\n

Kay Johnson from Joslyn Art Museum, and Kenneth B\u00e9, head of paintings conservation at the Gerald Ford Conservation Center handled and positioned the painting with gloves and care. The RT team bustled from table to machine to computer, and I snapped photos in between X-rays. Of course, everyone had to leave the room each time they took an image,\u00a0but then we\u00a0would gather\u00a0around the monitor to see the results.<\/p>\n

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Kay Johnson and Kenneth B\u00e9 with Pearl of Venice after the X-ray<\/p><\/div>\n

It was especially exciting when Mr. B\u00e9 reviewed that first image as it displayed on the computer and pointed out that we were seeing something that hadn\u2019t been seen by anyone other than the painter in over a hundred years.<\/p>\n

Pretty cool, huh?!<\/p>\n

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Viewing the X-ray image on a computer monitor.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Pointing out a spot that had already been cleaned of the yellowed varnish.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Want to see more photos and learn more about this fascinating type of art forensics? Don\u2019t miss the next Science Caf\u00e9<\/strong> presented by Kenneth B\u00e9 and James Temme.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere Art Meets Science: The Analysis of a Painting\u201d<\/a><\/strong>
\n Tuesday, June 3, 2014<\/strong>
\n 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM<\/strong>
\n Slowdown 729 N 14th<\/sup> St<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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As part of the restoration of the Joslyn Art Museum\u2019s \u201cPearl of Venice\u201d oil painting by Thomas Moran, they needed a high-quality radiograph. What better place to do that than right here at The Nebraska Medical Center and UNMC? It’s not often one is asked to photograph a famous painting as it\u2019s being x-rayed. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-associate-deans-office","category-extended-family","category-rste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}