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Artists Pigments
Item No: 151:0894682563
Category: 79
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Description:
Artist's Pigments: A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics
Editor: Elisabeth West Fitzhugh
ISBN: 0894682563
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York, 1997
Size: 170 x 245 mm (6.75 x 9.75 in.) 339 pages, 72 color photos and illus, 60 b/w halftones, 19 linecuts, 63 graphs, Hardcover.
The National Gallery of Art is delighted to present the third volume in the series, Artist's Pigments: A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics. Volume 3 includes ten additional pigments from some of the earliest, such as Egyptian blue and gamboge, to later, man-made colorants such as Prussian blue and the present century's titanium dioxide whites. With these latest additions, the series now covers forty "traditional" pigments; the two remaining will be included in volume 4. Also offered for the reader's benefit are more than 200 images including works of art that were created with the pigments described, as well as x-ray diffraction patterns, scanning electron micrographs, and thin-layer chromatographs.
The third volume is this magisterial series contains articles on Egyptian Blue, Orpiment and Realgar, Indigo and Woad, Madder and Alizarin, Gamboge, Vandyke Brown, Prussian Blue, Emerald Green and Scheele's Green, Chromium Oxide Greens, and Titanium Dioxide Whites.
About the Author(s)
Edited by Elisabeth West FitzHugh, Research Associate, Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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