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Friday, June 25, 2010

Vermeer's Palette

JohannesJan or Johan Vermeer (baptized in Delft on 31 October 1632 as Joannis, and buried in the same city under the name Jan on 15 December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life.

  • azurite
  • carmine
  • charcoal black
  • green earth
  • indigo
  • ivory black
  • lead white
  • lead-tin yellow
  • madder lake
  • red ochre
  • smalt
  • ultramarine
  • umber

  • weld

  • verdigris
  • vermillion

  • yellow ochre

An amazing article can be found on this Vermeer website about his palette.

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