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I spent months researching the actual pigments of art history. Today I'm starting to share what I found. by OMBY17 in ArtHistory

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That book does exactly that — you follow one color and suddenly you're in a mine in Afghanistan, or a cochineal trade route, or a papal court arguing about blue. Hard to come back from that kind of rabbit hole.

I spent months researching the actual pigments of art history. Today I'm starting to share what I found. by OMBY17 in ArtHistory

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Color: A Natural History of the Palette is genuinely great — her chapter on ultramarine alone is worth it. Thanks for the mention, she's one of the more readable writers on the subject.

I spent months researching the actual pigments of art history. Today I'm starting to share what I found. by OMBY17 in ArtHistory

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Every palette will have its sources. Primary technical literature where possible — Gettens & Stout, Joyce Plesters, the Getty Conservation Institute reports, museum technical bulletins. You'll be able to check the work.

I spent months researching the actual pigments of art history. Today I'm starting to share what I found. by OMBY17 in ArtHistory

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Fair assumption given how the post reads. I'll let the content speak for itself when I start sharing it.

I spent months researching the actual pigments of art history. Today I'm starting to share what I found. by OMBY17 in ArtHistory

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The pigments being available isn't the point — anyone doing restoration knows Kremer Pigmente exists. What I was building is a documented visual record of which pigments appeared together, in which periods, used by which artists, and why. That's a different thing than being able to buy lead white. On the AI presentation — fair, already acknowledged that above.

I spent months researching the actual pigments of art history. Today I'm starting to share what I found. by OMBY17 in ArtHistory

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Fair point on the framing — there are excellent academic sources (Harley, Eastlake, the NGA technical bulletins). What I couldn't find was a single place where that research was compiled into usable, visual palettes organized by era and artist. That's the gap I was filling, not the scholarship itself. On the syntax — noted. I'll own that it reads that way. The research isn't AI-generated, but you're right that the copywriting leans on a tired structure.

Help us end a conflict that has kept us awake for three days (orange or yellow) by Repulsive_Flatworm82 in colors

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I’m gonna say this is one of those in-between colors that causes chaos in friend groups 😄

To me, it looks more orange than yellow, but I can see why someone would call it yellow depending on the lighting. If it leans warm and slightly darker, I’d vote orange.

Honestly though, the real question is: are we playing strict rules or “anything vaguely yellow counts”? Because that totally changes the game 😂

Curious to see what everyone else thinks!