Pigments, Colors & Other Stories
María C.JAn interdisciplinary look at color, art, cognition and the things that make us human.
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Pigment Tuesday: ultramarine blue
A precious stone: the pierre d’azur. Matthaeus Platearius, Livre des simples médecines, late 15th century. Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
I’ve written countless stories about pigments over the years, and ultramarine blue is, without qu...
Pigment Guide #7: oil paint
A couple of years ago, my dad attempted the restoration of this oil painting made by my grandfather: a copy of Correggio’s Noli me tangere (1518) that it’s in the collection of the Prado. The canvas wasn’t really a canvas but burlap (he cou...
Pigments under the skin: ancient and traditional tattooing among women
Spanish depiction of the tattoos (patik) of the Visayan Pintados ("the painted ones") of the Philippines in the Boxer Codex (c. 1590), one of the earliest depictions of native Austronesian tattoos by European explorers.
I was recently atte...
Pigment Guide #6: iron gall ink (recipes from 16th century Spain)
Conservation studies about iron gall inks have increased exponentially in the past years.
In this post of the Pigment Guide, we turn away from mineral pigments to learn about ink. Ink has been prepared for millennia to write (and to make t...
Debunking the myths and prejudices surrounding prehistoric rock art
In this post, I cover six topics that are usually controversial or misunderstood about prehistoric art.
In this post, I cover six topics that are usually controversial or misunderstood about prehistoric art: Neanderthals’ symbolic abilitie...
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