12th Century Colour Palettes

Compiles passages on pigments from the Mappae Clavicula, Eraclius, and Theophilus, offering early recipes and historical insights, with illustrations from St. Martin's Church, Zillis.

Treatises on painting between the 1st and the 12th centuries A.D. may have been many but those preserved are found in two manuscripts from the 10th and 12th centuries: the Mappae Clavicula and Eraclius, On the Arts and Colours of the Romans – both of which probably date from c. 8th century. Of the 12th century ...