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222 The miniatures of the Vienna Genesis: colour identification and painters’ palettes
Palette of Painter B: folios 9–10, pages 17–20
Painter B illustrated the conflict of Jacob and Laban (Gen. 30, 30 to 31, 34). Buberl, Mazal
and Zimmermann judge painter B different in style to painter A. The palette of both art-
ists is similar (Table 2). Painter B mixed ultramarine blue with lead white and in shades
with indigo. XRF and FORS results confirm ultramarine blue. The artist used orpiment
for decorations on blue layers like on folio 10, page 20 on the blue tunic of Jacob.
Green areas were painted with a mixture of indigo and orpiment. Painter B used mix-
Fig. 23: Miniature on folio 9, page 17.
Fig. 24: Detail of the tree on folio 9, page
17.
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The Vienna Genesis
Material analysis and conservation of a Late Antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment
- Titel
- The Vienna Genesis
- Untertitel
- Material analysis and conservation of a Late Antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment
- Herausgeber
- Christa Hofmann
- Verlag
- Böhlau Verlag
- Ort
- Wien
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-205-21058-0
- Abmessungen
- 17.3 x 24.5 cm
- Seiten
- 348