Artists' Pigments: A Handbook of Their History and Characteristicsvolume 2

by Ashok Roy

An encyclopedic reference developed in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, the Artists' Pigments series combines two aspects of the study of pigments--the history of individual pigments and dyes and scientific methods for identifying and characterizing artists' colorants--rarely brought together in one publication. Volume 2 contains extensive studies of nine pigments including azurite and blue verditer, ultramarine blue, lead white, lead-tin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0894682601
• ISBN13: 9780894682605
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"