The 19th century was a century of new pigments. They were derived from recently recognised metals?cadmium, chrome, zinc and others? as well as from the discover

Three texts by two Italian Renaissance painters - Leonardo da Vinci and Gian Paolo Lomazzo - and a compendium of the 53 standard pigments commonly found on arti

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