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214 The miniatures of the Vienna Genesis: colour identification and painters’ palettes
of read lead and cinnabar (HgS) like for the flames on folio 1, page 2 and on folio 2, page
4. Cinnabar is indicated by peaks of mercury (Hg) on the XRF spectrum (Fig. 10) and by
an inflexion point of approx. 600 nm on FORS spectra (Fig. 11). It is difficult to visually
differentiate between red lead, cinnabar and red ochres. Painter A might have added cin-
nabar to his palette to paint some areas, e. g. the flames, more vividly. He might have used
cinnabar more frequently on folios that are now missing.
For pink painter A used madder lake mixed with lead white, a common habit of all
Fig. 9: Miniature on
folio 5, page
10, Lot and his
daughters.
Fig. 10: XRF spectra of red areas on folio 1, page 2 (MP1_14) and folio 5, page 10 (MP5_4). For comparison
a spectrum of blank parchment of folio 5 (MP5_7) shows the background signal detected.
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The Vienna Genesis
Material analysis and conservation of a Late Antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment
- Title
- The Vienna Genesis
- Subtitle
- Material analysis and conservation of a Late Antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment
- Editor
- Christa Hofmann
- Publisher
- Böhlau Verlag
- Location
- Wien
- Date
- 2020
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-205-21058-0
- Size
- 17.3 x 24.5 cm
- Pages
- 348