Rare Roman Painting Reveals an Unusual Use of Egyptian Blue | Archaeology News Online Magazine
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Archaeology discovery of rare Roman painting reveals ancient artistic technique
An Archaeological discovery of a rare Roman painting reveals an ancient artistic technique used by craftsmen of the time.Expensive Egyptian blue pigment was blended directly into their lime mortar, rather than simply painting it onto the surface, according to a new study of wall-painting fragments.Researchers made the discovery at the villa of Torre di Pordenone in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in Northern Italy, where workers created a marin…
Rare Roman painting reveals an unusual use of Egyptian blue | Archaeology News Online Magazine
A study of Roman wall-painting fragments from northern Italy has found an unusual use of Egyptian blue. The pigment wasn’t applied only to the surface. Roman craftsmen mixed it into the lime mortar beneath a marine scene. The fragments came from the Roman villa of Torre di Pordenone in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Archaeologists found them in […]
Researchers have discovered fragments of plaster from a Roman village in Italy that contain grains of Egyptian blue, the oldest synthetic pigment known, mixed with the material, challenging the understanding about the availability of this...
Egyptian blue was born in Egypt before 3100 B.C. and is considered the first pigment manufactured by the human being. To obtain it, artisans heated at high temperatures a mixture of silica, lime, copper compounds and alkaline salts until it crystallized an intense blue compound, copper silicate [...]
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