#EgyptianBlue

Let’s talk about #EgyptianBlue, its manufacture and use from Egypt to the Iberian Peninsula, with a special insight into the Vesuvian area, where this pot containing original pigment has been
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In today’s #thread, we are going to talk about the first scientific analyses of the pigments employed on the mural paintings of @pompeii_sites, published by Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1809). Chaptal was
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In today’s #thread we will be talking about Late Classical and Hellenistic painting techniques, from Greece and Macedon to present-day Bulgaria and Italy. Aren’t these Tyrian purple backgrounds from Tomb
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In today’s #thread we are going to talk about the manufacturing process and use of black pigments in Roman mural paintings, with examples from @pompeii_Sites and @MNR_museo. Let’s go! Pliny
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In today’s #thread we are going to talk about a degradation process that endangers the red ochre pigment of the mural paintings of @pompeii_sites: its darkening. As we have already
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In today’s #thread, we will be talking about yellow pigments employed in the mural paintings of @pompeii_sites, according to Pliny’s descriptions and modern scientific analysis. In the last days, we
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