The Alchemy of Paint: Art, Science and Secrets from the Middle Ages (Bucklow Spike)(Paperback)

The Alchemy of Paint: Art, Science and Secrets from the Middle Ages (Bucklow Spike)(Paperback)

The Alchemy of Paint: Art, Science and Secrets from the Middle Ages (Bucklow Spike)(Paperback)

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The Alchemy of Paint is a critique of the modern world, which Spike Bucklow sees as the product of seventeenth-century ideas about science. In modern times, we have divorced color from its origins, using it for commercial advantage. Spike Bucklow shows us how in medieval times, color had mystical significance far beyond the enjoyment of shade and hue.

Each chapter demonstrates the mindset of medieval Europe and is devoted to just one color, acknowledging its connections with life in the pre-modern world. Colors examined and explained in detail include a midnight blue called ultramarine, an opaque red called vermilion, a multitude of colors made from metals, a transparent red called dragonsblood, and, finally, gold.

Today, 'scarlet' describes a color, but it was originally a type of cloth. Henry VI's wardrobe accounts from 1438 to 1489 show that his cheapest scarlet

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