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Ochre from Vaucluse was an important French export until the mid-20th century, when major markets were lost due to the Russian Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. Ochre also began to face growing competition from newly synthetic pigment industry. The quarries in Roussillon, Rustrel, the Mines of Bruoux closed one by one.
Often light ochre or golden ochre is used to give the painting the impression of external monochrome or unity of color, and also to ensure that the light in the painting does not look colder than the shadow. In this case, ochre performs not only the function of enhancing the feeling of unity of the picture, but also an additional "warming" color.
[1] [2] Other earth pigments include the green earth pigments or terres vertes, blue earth pigments such as vivianite-based "blue ochre", white earth pigments such as chalk, and black earth pigments such as charcoal. [3] [4] Earth pigments are known for their fast drying time in oil painting, relative inexpensiveness, and lightfastness. Cave ...
Encountering a vein of ochre there, they tried to mine ochre along with silver; therefore the ancients had at their disposal excellent supplies of ochre for finishing their works.” [4] Pliny the Elder fully confirms his opinion in Natural History (book thirty-three). “The best ochre is the one called Attic; its price is 2 denarii per pound.
Cervantite [3]: 46 (German: Cervantit) [1]: 330 or white lustrous antimony ore — antimony tetroxide with the ideal formula Sb 2 O 4 or, in more detailed form, Sb 3+ Sb 5+ O 4, an oxidation product of antimonite, [4]: 188 along with valentinite — the lightest of the antimony ochers.
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Buff (Latin: bubalinus) [2] [3] is a light brownish yellow, ochreous colour, typical of buff leather. [4] [5] Buff is a mixture of yellow ochre and white: [6] two parts of white lead and one part of yellow ochre produces a good buff, or white lead may be tinted with French ochre alone.
Amber Heard recently gave what's believed to be her first interview since moving to Europe, and she did so speaking flawlessly in Spanish.In video recorded last month by Univision's popular talk ...