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236 The miniatures of the Vienna Genesis: colour identification and painters’ palettes
F painted backgrounds in a variety of violet to blue shades. The artist used yellow ochre for
yellow and light brown tones. He mixed yellow ochre with lead white. Sometimes small
amounts of ultramarine blue seem to have been added. On light brown areas, highlights
were painted with lead white and yellow ochre. Shades were applied with a brown earth
pigment. An earth pigment and lead white are confirmed by XRF, yellow ochre by FORS.
Dark brown colours were painted with brown ochre and a reddish brown earth pigment.
Painter F used carbon black for shades and contours. The hair of Joseph’s brothers was
painted in this way on folio 19, page 38. The black paint was identified as carbon black by
FORS. On some areas like the boots, the first layer is painted with a reddish brown earth
pigment. XRF spectra indicate an earth pigment, possibly umber. Carbon black is applied
on top.
Blue-grey colours are a mixture of indigo and lead white as confirmed by XRF (lead
white) and FORS (both pigments). Painter F also used mixtures of indigo, lead white,
Fig. 41: Miniature on
folio 19, page
37, Joseph
meets his
brothers.
Fig. 42: Microscopic image, 10x magnification, of
old rose on the cushion of Jacob on folio
21, page 41.
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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