Pigments through the Ages

              
/ ma • luh • kite /
Malachite
 
 
   

     
 

  1.  Overview  
  2. History
of use
 
  3. Making the
pigment
 
  4. Technical
details
 
  
  History of Malachite:   
        
 

A painted swatch of Malachite:

Occurs in egyptian tomb paintings since the Fourth dynasty, in european paintings it seems to have been of importance mainly in the 15th and 16th centuries.

  When was Malachite used?   
        
Discovery:    
 Used until:
 
antiquity  
16th century  

    

Use of Malachite among paintings in the SchackGallery, Munich:

Source: Kühn


Other greens        
(intro) - Cobalt green - copper resinate - Emerald green - Green earth - malachite      
verdigris - viridian        

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