WHITE, "For those colors which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground." Leonardo Da Vinci
The Dutch artist Jan Vermeer even made some of his luminescent white with a receipt that included alabaster and quartz - in lumps that took the light reflected into the painting and made it dance. Medieval and Renaissance Treaties on the Art of Painting, Merrifield. Madder, a small bush with a pink root, rich orange red, Rubia tinctorium. Rose madder possibly found in Turkey. Do BAG .....Harold Boehmer, German Chemist.
COLOR, A natural history of the Palette, by Victoria Finlay
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Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis, 1954
Gaudy Night, by Dorothy Sayers
The genre of writing about reading, books on books, ....
- wry humor -
The great American philosopher Immanuel Kant called B. Franklin the "new Prometheus" for stealing the fire of heaven,...lightning.
A pencil can write 45,000 words! The typical pencil can draw a line 35 miles long! This scenic designer will go through a hundred No.2 Pencils in one year, sketching and drafting for the stage.
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