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Thangkas are sacred artifacts; therefore, conducting scientific examinations of these paintings is not common. Based on this significant ethical challenge, a study published in the journal Heritage proposed a non-invasive three-stage technique that carefully investigates each layer of the painting, successfully assessing various production stages such as color notations, underdrawing, and painting techniques.
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N NOVEMBER 2013, Nora von Achenbach, curator at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg, Germany, examined the catalogue for an upcoming auction by the Paris-based dealer Boisgirard-Antonini. The glossy pages offered a bevy of antiquities for sale: bronze figurines, jewellery and a statue from ancient Egypt estimated at more than â¬300,000. But von Achenbach was interested in a pale marble tablet, carved with arabesques, vines and Persian
script. Lot 104, an âimportant epigraphic panel with interlacings from the palace of Masâud IIIâ, was date to the 12th century, from the capital of the Ghaznavid Empire, in what is today Afghanistan.