Information
Associate Member of CODART since 2026
Areas of specialization
- 16th- and 17th-century Netherlandish painting
- Technical art history
- Scientific imagery/technical documentation
Selected publications
2025
The Down to the Ground Project and Database of Coloured Grounds
Moorea Hall-Aquitania and Paul J.C. van Laar
The Hague (RKD) 2025
‘Prepared and Proffered: The Role of Professional Primers in the Spread of Coloured Grounds‘
Moorea Hall-Aquitania
Article in Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, vol. 17, no. 2 (forthcoming)
‘Under the Microscope and Into the Spreadsheet: Designing Data Frameworks for (Technical) Art Historical Research‘
Moorea Hall-Aquitania and Paul J.C. van Laar
Article in Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, vol. 17, no. 2 (forthcoming)
‘A Technical Art Historian avant la lettre‘
Erma Hermens and Moorea Hall-Aquitania
Essay in Samuel van Hoogstraten (forthcoming)
Amsterdam (Rembrandthuis) 2025
2021
‘X-ray computed tomography for non-invasive dendrochronology reveals a concealed double panelling on a painting from Rubens” studio‘
M. DomÃnguez-Delmás, F. G. Bossema, J. Dorscheid, S. B. Coban, M. Hall-Aquitania, K. J. Batenburg and E. Hermens
Article in PLoS ONE, vol. 16, no 8, 2021.
2020
‘Troubleshooting Coloured Grounds: Developing a Methodology for Studying Netherlandish Ground Colour‘
Moorea Hall-Aquitania and Lieve d’Hont
Essay in Ground Layers in European Painting 1550-1750, V, CATS Proceedings, pp. 1–9
London (Archetype) 2020
2018
‘Efficienza e Unione: Practical Considerations for Using Colored Grounds in Sixteenth-Century Italy‘
Moorea Hall-Aquitania
Essay in Trading Paintings and Painter”s Materials 1550-1800, IV, CATS Proceedings, pp. 121–29
London (Archetype) 2018