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Making Raw and Burnt Sienna — The Warm Iron Earth from Tuscany
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ART
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Making Raw and Burnt Umber — The Manganese Earth Pigments of Warm Shadow and Deep Brown
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ART
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Making Yellow Ochre Pigment — Grinding and Levigating Goethite into the Oldest Painter's Yellow
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ART
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Making Bone Black Pigment — Calcining Animal Bones into the Warm Black of Old Master Painters
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Animal
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Yingozi
Making Cinnabar Red Pigment — Grinding Mercury Sulfide into the Most Vivid Red of the Ancient World
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Ancient
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Making Dammar Varnish — The Clear Picture Varnish for Oil Paintings
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Middle Ages
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Making Green Earth Pigment (Terra Verte) — The Soft Green of Celadonite and Glauconite
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Ancient
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Making Malachite Green Pigment — Grinding the Copper Mineral into Painter's Green
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Ancient
41
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Yingozi
Making Prussian Blue — The First Modern Synthetic Pigment (Berlin, 1704)
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Modern
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Yingozi
Making Smalt — Grinding Cobalt Blue Glass into the Renaissance Painter's Blue Pigment
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Middle Ages
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Making Traditional Gesso — The White Ground That Prepared Every Panel Painting in History
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Middle Ages
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Making Vine Black Pigment — Charring Grape Vines into the Cool Blue-Black of Classical Painters
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Ancient
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Water Gilding with Gold Leaf — Applying Gold to Gesso and Bole for a Mirror Finish
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Ancient
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Making Chalk White Pigment (Whiting) — Grinding and Levigating Natural Chalk
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Prehistoric
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Making Encaustic Paint — The Hot Beeswax Medium of Ancient Greek and Egyptian Painters
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Ancient
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Making a Lake Pigment from Plant Dye — Precipitating Soluble Colour onto an Insoluble Substrate
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Ancient
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Making Lampblack Pigment — Collecting Carbon Soot from a Burning Flame
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Prehistoric
68
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Making Red Ochre by Calcining Yellow Ochre — The Oldest Deliberate Pigment Transformation
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Prehistoric
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Making Ultramarine from Lapis Lazuli — Extracting the Most Precious Pigment in History
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Middle Ages
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Making Verdigris — The Copper Acetate Green of Medieval Painters
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Ancient
39
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