🏺The Palette of Pompeii: Pliny, Pigments, and the Science of Roman Frescoes 🎨📜🔬

 🏺The Palette of Pompeii: Pliny, Pigments, and the Science of Roman Frescoes 🎨📜🔬

✅The pigments used in Roman and, in particular, Pompeian painting were of mineral, vegetable and animal origin. 

✅The main historical source of information is Pliny the Elder, writer and great observer of nature, who died during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. Pliny dealt with many aspects of science, technique and art that he recounted in his encyclopedic work 'Naturalis Historia'. Book XXXV is entirely dedicated to the 'colores', with information on their nature, origin and creation. 

✅Pliny, referring to the value of colors, for example, distinguishes the most popular and easy to find 'planes' and the most sought after and expensive ones, certainly more brilliant, in 'florid'. Together with Pliny's work, the analysis of the frescoes discovered in Pompeii provide many other information on the color palette used by the painters of domus and public buildings, together with the remains of very fine powder pigments found in excavations.

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