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.
A look at a handful of pigments that have fallen out of fashion, including mayan blue, tyrian purple, white lead, lapis lazuli, dragon's blue, mummy brown, Indian yellow, and Scheele's green.
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