> From: Tony Riley Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 4:10 > William Curwen observed: > > The artists who painted those pictures knew exactly what > > colour was what, as most of the pigments used were premixed > > above ground. In daylight. > > I agree entirely.....thats why I said > .....I have a notion that some sort of painting by numbers/colour > management system must have been in use...... > > My point was that they would never have seen the finished paintings as > we are able to today.
Interesting thought: What was the paintings' intended audience and where? If they were intended to be viewed in the light of the fat lamps, the problem is that we are now viewing them in the wrong light, not that the artists had a hard time translating daylight colors to fat-light colors. Bertho =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
