Description
This starting place tale of historical past’s so much vibrant colour pigments is very best for artists, historical past buffs, technological know-how enthusiasts, and layout fans.
Did you recognize that the Egyptians created the primary artificial colour and used it to create the well-known blue crown of Queen Nefertiti? Or that the noblest crimson comes from a predatory sea snail? Within the Roman Empire, masses of lots of snails needed to be sacrificed to provide a unmarried ounce of dye. During historical past, pigments had been constituted of fatal metals, toxic minerals, urine, cow dung, or even beaten bugs. From grinding down beetles and burning animal bones to alchemy and natural success, Chromatopia unearths the starting place tales at the back of over fifty of historical past’s so much vibrant colour pigments.
Featuring informative and designated colour histories, a bit on running with monochromatic colour, and “recipes” for paint-making, Chromatopia supplies colour fanatics with an eclectic tale of ways artificial colours got here to be. Pink lead, for instance, used to be invented by way of the traditional Greeks by way of roasting white lead, and it was the dominant Pink in medieval portray.
Spanning from the traditional international to brand new leaps in generation, and vibrantly illustrated During, this ebook will upload a bit chroma to someone’s working out of the historical past of colours.
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