Page - 216 - in The Vienna Genesis - Material analysis and conservation of a Late Antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment

216 The miniatures of the Vienna Genesis: colour identification and painters’ palettes ochres, yellow and brown ochres (Fig. 16). Visually, it is difficult to distinguish between different brown earth pigments. In general, painter A applied ochres in thin layers that often show abrasion and losses. The use of yellow and brown pigments can be seen on the miniature of folio 6, page 12 (Fig. 17). Fig. 11: FORS spectra of red lead, cinnabar, red ochre and madder. Fig. 12: Fluorescence spectra of madder (solid line), cochineal (dashed line) and pink areas of the Vienna Genesis (dotted lines). Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0