Significant Red: Watercolour and the Uses of Red Pigments in Military and Architectural Conventions

The use of watercolour red proved especially disconcerting for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century artists: it came in a wide range of costs, and with a dizzying list of names and shades according to the pigments used. On the economic and aesthetic choice the painter made also depended the staying p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bénédicte Miyamoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 2018-12-01
Series:XVII-XVIII
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/1718/1133

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