Arts articles within Nature Communications

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  14 May 2024 | Open Access

  Enabling 3D CT-scanning of cultural heritage objects using only in-house 2D X-ray equipment in museums

  Visualising the structure of museum objects is a crucial step in understanding the origin, state, and composition of cultural heritage artifacts. Here the authors present an approach for creating computed tomography reconstructions using only standard 2D radiography equipment already available in most larger museums.

  • Francien G. Bossema
  • , Willem Jan Palenstijn
  •  & K. Joost Batenburg

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  10 May 2024 | Open Access

  Global musical diversity is largely independent of linguistic and genetic histories

  Human groups preserve cultural history in songs passed between generations. Here the authors show that musical histories are largely independent of the history preserved in genes and languages.

  • Sam Passmore
  • , Anna L. C. Wood
  •  & Patrick E. Savage

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  28 March 2023 | Open Access

  A holistic view on the role of egg yolk in Old Masters’ oil paints

  Old Masters used paints containing mixtures of oils and proteins, but we lack an understanding on how and why proteins were used. Here, the authors use egg yolk in combination with two pigments to evaluate how different repartition of proteinaceous binder can be used to control the flow behaviour as well as drying kinetics and chemistry of oil paints.

  • Ophélie Ranquet
  • , Celia Duce
  •  & Norbert Willenbacher