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16th Century Colour Palettes by Patricia Railing (Editor)
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Three texts by two Italian Renaissance painters - Leonardo da Vinci and Gian Paolo Lomazzo - and a compendium of the 53 standard pigments commonly found on artists' palettes for painting in oil on panel and on canvas as outlined by the writer, Raffaello Borghini, make up this 16th century collection of ...Show more
17th Century Colour Palettes by Patricia Railing (Editor)
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Ten 17th century writers described the pigments in use in their countries - England, Sweden, Flanders, France, Spain, and Italy. The theme of their treatises was studio practice and the pigments were discussed as they were set on the palette. Surprisingly, the method was the same - from light to dark, w ...Show more
18th Century Colour Palettes by Patricia Railing (Editor)
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Pigments described by the English chemist, Robert Dossie, the French artists' colourman, Jean F#65533;lix Watin, and the London-based pigment maker, Constant de Massoul. 18th century European painting saw the introduction of new pigments to the painters' palettes, from Prussian Blue to the early synthet ...Show more
19th Century Colour Palettes by Patricia Railing
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The 19th century was a century of new pigments. They were derived from recently recognised metals -cadmium, chrome, zinc and others - as well as from the discovery of the chemical colouring substances of plants. From indigo the aniline dyes were manufactured, and from madder came the alizarin red pigmen ...Show more
1st Century Colour Palettes by Patricia Railing (Editor)
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The sources of pigments used in European painting are found in classical antiquity, and the over 40 pigments in use were described by Theophrastus, Vitruvius, Pliny the Elder, and Dioscorides. The principles of painting were also described by Pliny, to be picked up by Italian Renaissance painters of the ...Show more
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