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The Colorful Stories of 5 Obsolete Art Pigments
The Colorful Stories of 5 Obsolete Art Pigments
The colors of art change not just with trends, but availability as well. For reasons of being incredibly poisonous, expensive, or just involving way too many snails, here are five pigments that have disappeared from art. On murals, pottery, even possibly painted on the hapless bodies offered as human sacrifices, a sky-blue color has been found in artifacts of the Maya and Aztec.
hyperallergic.com
involving way too many snails
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