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Period Pigments

Red Lead - Minium Pigment.jpg
Cinnabar Pigment.jfif
Green Earth - Verona Green Pigment.jpg
Verdigris Pigment.jfif
Lead White Pigment.jpg
Madder Lake Pigment3.jpg
Carmine Lake Pigment.webp
Realgar Pigment.jpg
orpiment%202_edited.png
Malachite%20Pigment_edited.jpg
Indigo Pigment.jpg
Egyptian blue 2.jpg
Azurite Pigment.jpg
Lamp Black Pigment 2.jpg
Bone Black 2.jpg
Raw Umber Pigment.jpg
Burnt Umber Pigment.webp
Raw Sienna Pigment.jpg
Burnt Sienna 2.jpg
Red Ochre Pigment 2.jpg
Yellow Ochre Pigment.jpg
Lime White 2.jpg

Prehistory

(Before 8th century BC)

Antiquity

(8th c. BC - 6th Century AD)

Medieval

(5th - 15th Century)

Renaissance

(14th - 17th Century)

Ultramarine%20Pigment_edited.jpg

*Started in Egypt and Ended with the fall of Rome. Then started use again in the 19th Century

Lead Tin Yellow Pigment.jpg
Smalt PIgment.jpg
Indian Yellow Pigment.jpg
Copper Resinate.jpg
Naples Yellow Pigment.jpg

Carbon Blank

(Vine Black, Lamp Black)

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Bone Black

(Ivory Black, Bone Charcoal)

Raw Umber

Burnt Umber

Raw Sienna

Burnt Sienna

Red Ochre

(Red Bole, Cinabrese, Mars Red)

Yellow Ochre

(Mars Yellow)

Lime White

(Chalk, Bianco San Giovanni)

Madder Lake

(Garanza Lake, Alizarin)

Carmine Lake

(Cochineal Lake, Kermes Lake)

Realgar (Toxic)

Orpiment (Toxic)

(Kings Yellow)

Malachite (Toxic)

(Bremen Green/Iris Green)

Azurite

(Lapis Armenius, Mountain Blue, Azurium Citramarinium, Blue Verditer, Blue Bice)

Egyptian Blue

(Frit, Pompeian Blue)

Indigo

Minium (Toxic)

(Red Lead)

Vermilion (Toxic)

(Cinnabar)

​Green Earth

(Terra Verte, Verona Green)

Verdigris (Toxic)

Lead White (Toxic)

((Flake White, Cremnitz White)

Ultramarine

(Lazurite, French Ultramarine)

(12th Century)

Lead Tin Yellow (Toxic)

(Giallorino)

(13th to 18th Century)

Smalt (Blue Cobalt Glass) - Toxic

(Starch Blue)

(15th - 18th Century)

Indian Yellow

(Snowshoe Yellow)

(15th to 19th Century)

Copper Resinate

(Glaze used on top of Verdigris)

(15th to 17th Century)

Naples Yellow (Toxic)

(Lead Antimonate Yellow)

undocumented how long its been in use as a pigment

Out of Period but still in Renaissance

Van Dyke Brown - Cassel Earth Pigment.jp
Prussian Blue Pigment.jpg
Cobalt Green Pigment.jpg
Cobalt Blue Pigment.jpg

Van Dyke Brown

(Cassel Earth/Cologne Earth)

1600

Prussian Blue

(Milori Blue, Berlin Blue, Iron Blue)   1724

Cobalt Green

(Rinmans Green, Zinc Green

1780)

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Cobalt Blue

(Thénards Blue/Dresden Blue)

1802

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