Scientists Think They've Figured Out Why Van Gogh's Sunflowers Are Fading

The vibrant colors of many of Vincent van Gogh’s most famous paintings—including his Sunflower series—have been fading over the last 100 years. Now a team of Italian scientists has come up with an explanation as to why the lead chromate dyes favored by the artist when mixing his pigments degrade so much under light. They described their work in a new paper in Chemical Science.
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