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One color a day, told as it ought to be told: with its provenance, its chemistry, and the people who paid for it in poison.
Every pigment in this catalogue has a paper trail. Where it was first ground, in whose workshop, on whose canvas it dried, when it was banned, what replaced it. We do not invent provenance and we do not edit out the unflattering parts.
New entries arrive each Sunday at 06:00 GMT. Older entries are continually amended as conservation laboratories publish corrections.
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A rather curious site, a compendium of color pigments. I’m adding this as this weeks monday-connect which is a call to explore a website I came across.
Find a color and share something you learned? I used the visual chips of color to learn about Manganese Blue
Created in 1907 in Germany, and oddly enough for those following stories of pool colors its most common use for that purpose. I was intrigued to read how art historians discovered it was a pigment in a work by Jackson Pollack.
