>Have been looking up which pigments Michelangelo used
>3 different sources list a bunch of different shit despite the max amount ever listed before by one analysis said he used 10 pigments max
>these are gathered from the Doni Tondo, Lunettes, and Last Judgement but no one is sure which is specific to which or which he did or didn't use in which one or if he switched pigments between yeats
>Azurite
>Verdigris
>Red Oxide
>Yellow Ochre
>Vermilion
>Red Ochre
>Calcium White
>Lead White
>Kaolin Clays for greens and yellows?
>Hydrated yellow iron oxide
>Terre verte
>thickened Azurite
>Lapis Lazuli
>Magnesium white
>red lake
>lead tin yellow
>Manganese Black but is listed as a brown
>brown ochre
>Sienna
>realgar
>Zinc white
>malachite
>All argue that he either did or didn't use lead white, or did or didn't use ochres, I don't even think he used Verdigris over terre verte
>No one will ever be able to fully know which pigments he actually fucking used.
>I had written a small paper ages ago on which pigments to just buy and use off simple deduction from two prior sources, and was planning on just using that even if it was wrong because it was mine and I could only blame myself if I failed
>I fucking lost it. It's gone forever.
Woe, the severe pain humanity must endure.
Truly over, it is.
>3 different sources list a bunch of different shit despite the max amount ever listed before by one analysis said he used 10 pigments max
>these are gathered from the Doni Tondo, Lunettes, and Last Judgement but no one is sure which is specific to which or which he did or didn't use in which one or if he switched pigments between yeats
>Azurite
>Verdigris
>Red Oxide
>Yellow Ochre
>Vermilion
>Red Ochre
>Calcium White
>Lead White
>Kaolin Clays for greens and yellows?
>Hydrated yellow iron oxide
>Terre verte
>thickened Azurite
>Lapis Lazuli
>Magnesium white
>red lake
>lead tin yellow
>Manganese Black but is listed as a brown
>brown ochre
>Sienna
>realgar
>Zinc white
>malachite
>All argue that he either did or didn't use lead white, or did or didn't use ochres, I don't even think he used Verdigris over terre verte
>No one will ever be able to fully know which pigments he actually fucking used.
>I had written a small paper ages ago on which pigments to just buy and use off simple deduction from two prior sources, and was planning on just using that even if it was wrong because it was mine and I could only blame myself if I failed
>I fucking lost it. It's gone forever.
Woe, the severe pain humanity must endure.
Truly over, it is.
