Name/Title
An atlas of rare & familiar colour : The Harvard Art Museums' Forbes Pigment CollectionEntry/Object ID
NK1549.A85Description
The Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums encompasses over 2,500 of the world's rarest pigments. Museum director Edward Forbes started the collection at the turn of the 20th century, in order to preserve the early Italian paintings he had begun to collect. Over the years, the collection grew into a huge apothecary of bottles and beakers, as other art lovers and color experts donated their own pigments. Today the collection continues to grow, and regularly helps experts across the world to research and authenticate paintings. Visually excavating the museums' extraordinary collection, An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour examines the contained pigments and artifacts -- their provenance, composition, symbology and application. It also explores the larger related fields of chromatics, the historical narratives of art and chemistry, and the innovations with which we have sought to better illustrate our aesthetic and expressive compulsions.Lexicon
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color, pigmentsBook Details
Author
Victoria Finlay, Capucine Labarthe, Narayan Khandekar, Trinder KingstonPublisher
Atelier ÉditionsDate Published
2018Call No.
NK1549.A85ISBN
997593571, 9780997593570Notes
Length: 223General Notes
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Publication NoteNote
"A collaboration with Harvard Art Museums: Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum."