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stElla panayotoVa
mering textiles became increasingly common in the 1300s, but their development
in the 1200s has gone largely unnoticed. An early example is a Crucifixion painted
in Lower Saxony or Westphalia during the second quarter of the thirteenth cen-
tury.49 Green is laid over yellow orpiment fabrics; orpiment and red lead are applied
over grey fabrics (bone black mixed with lead white); purple draperies (ultramarine
and organic red mixture) are shot through with a range of contrasting pigments:
red lead, organic red, orpiment, red and brown earths (pl. 13).
The Trinity Apocalypse is particularly rich in cangianti. Passages of verdigris and
yellow ochre alternate and overlap creating a glowing pattern that would be repli-
49 Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay cutting G. 1. Morgan / Panayotova, Catalogue
(cit. n. 22), no. 73.
pl. 13: Cangianti effects in Fitzwil-
liam Museum, Marlay cutting G.
1 (a); photomicroscopy details of
Cambridge, Trinity College, MS
R.16.2, fols. 8v (b), 22r (c–d);
Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 300,
fol. 191v (e)
Europäische Bild- und Buchkultur im 13. Jahrhundert
- Title
- Europäische Bild- und Buchkultur im 13. Jahrhundert
- Author
- Christine Beier
- Editor
- Michaela Schuller-Juckes
- Publisher
- Böhlau Verlag
- Location
- Wien
- Date
- 2020
- Language
- German
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-205-21193-8
- Size
- 18.5 x 27.8 cm
- Pages
- 290
- Categories
- Geschichte Chroniken