Image analysis in service of experimentalarchaeology-ceramic materials from Serbianexcavation sites

The aim of the presented paper is to show the necessity of multidisciplinaryapproach in studying objects of art. Painting Nokturno I, Petar Lubarda, wasanalyzed using both destructive and non-destructive analytical techniques inorder to identify pigments and binders and to generate as much as possibleinformation about the Lubarda’s painting technique usable for furtherinvestigation of his artwork. Pigments and fillers such as artificial ultramarine,cobalt violet, zinc white, yellow ochre, carbon black and lithopone wereidentified. FTIR analysis revealed the use of oil binders and the absence ofvarnish