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238 The miniatures of the Vienna Genesis: colour identification and painters’ palettes
be a mixture of indigo and orpiment (Fig. 43). Shades and contours were applied in carbon
black.
In continuity, painter G used red lead as red pigment. Shades were applied with red
ochre sometimes mixed with carbon black. Artist G painted three to four well-defined
shades in red areas. Pink is a mixture of madder with lead white. The painter added ultra-
marine/azurite to achieve old-rose hues in the sky and the background. Violet colours were
mixed with ultramarine/azurite, madder and lead white.
Painter G continues to use ochre as brown pigment. He painted light brown areas with
yellow ochre. Highlights were set with lead white. Shades seem to be painted with brown
ochre and sometimes with a reddish brown earth pigment. Dark brown areas appear to
be mixtures of yellow and brown ochre, dark shades mixtures of brown ochre, a reddish
brown earth pigment and carbon black. The use of earth pigments and lead white is con-
firmed by XRF, yellow and red ochres by FORS. Fig. 43: Miniature on
folio 24, page
47, Jacob and
his sons.
Fig. 44: Microscopic image, 10x magnification, of
blue paint on folio 23, page 46.
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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