Re: Prussian Blue and Leonardo??? 735 by Anwar M. Shaikh on 08/03/01 at 1:42 PM
Re: Prussian Blue and Leonardo???

In Reply to: Prussian Blue and Leonardo??? posted by Ed on 05/18/01 at 5:39 PM:

: I’m confused about the supposed quote from da Vinci under the free oil painting lesson on this site, can anyone shed any light on this “...under which we put Prussian Blue becomes...”
: I checked to make sure and Prussian Blue wasn’t discovered until the early 18th century so how could Leonardo mention it? I’m pretty sure the term wasn’t used for another colour before then so that’s not a possible explanation.

You know what I believe this is a case of one artist being especially fond af a color assuming that his favorite artist must surely have used it with out regard to fact. Anotovs paintings are closer to Chardin than DaVinci anyway. There are only 4 or five paintings DaVinci did that come to us today. All of them used essentially the going palette of the day for beginners. The palette was flake white, yellow ochre, Indian red, Lamp Black, Terre Verte. Occasionally using Lapis Lazuli ( replaced by Ultramarine Blue), Malichite green (replaced by Chromium Oxide Green Blue shade).
There were other pigments available but apparently DaVinci was a Low Chroma sort of guy more interested in the illusion of sculptural "relief" than in brilliant color.




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I’m confused about the supposed quote from da Vinci under the free oil painting lesson on this site, can anyone shed any light on this “...under which we put Prussian Blue becomes...” I checked to make sure and Prussian Blue wasn’t discovered until the early 18th century so how could Leonardo mention it? I’m pretty sure the term wasn’t used for another colour before then so that’s not a possible explanation. : You know what I believe this is a case of one artist being especially fond af a color assuming that his favorite artist must surely have used it with out regard to fact. Anotovs paintings are closer to Chardin than DaVinci anyway. There are only 4 or five paintings DaVinci did that come to us today. All of them used essentially the going palette of the day for beginners. The palette was flake white, yellow ochre, Indian red, Lamp Black, Terre Verte. Occasionally using Lapis Lazuli ( replaced by Ultramarine Blue), Malichite green (replaced by Chromium Oxide Green Blue shade). : There were other pigments available but apparently DaVinci was a Low Chroma sort of guy more interested in the illusion of sculptural "relief" than in brilliant color.

 
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