What is Verdigris? It’s funny when a color won’t stay one color. Verdigris was the first green my group, Team Green, chose to make for…
Tag: Pigments
When my Team Green-mates had already made the three biggest greens in medieval manuscripts—verdigris, malachite, and organic (plant) greens—it was time to think outside the…
Let’s talk reds. Bright, vibrant, and usually toxic – reds were one of the most important pigments for any medieval manuscript. Hi, we’re Team Red,…
by Eliza Sarazua, Connor Ottem, and Johanna Hoover Have you ever thought you would get the opportunity to do some insane isotope testing on a…
What It’s All About By Emily Cooley, Corie Bolt, Ceciley Pangburn, and David Walker Undoubtedly, the oo’s and aah’s of any illuminated manuscript are the…
By: Ashley Dolin, Georgia Earley, Luke Jordan, and Leah Sample Why is an English class spending months laboring over a 15th century French manuscript? And…
By Kinsey Poland, Khayla Doby, William Baldwin, and Trisha Hyatt The Question For the Hargrett Hours spectral analysis project, our group focused on analyzing the…
Well, a bit. At the end of last semester, the good people at the Teaching the Codex blog – a blog on teaching manuscript studies…
I went into this final unit of class with equal doses of excitement and trepidation. Excitement over learning this new aspect of manuscript study alongside…
Let’s Jump into Lakes
When dipping our brushes into medieval pigments, we should familiarize ourselves with a common form of pigments, the lake. Lakes are an organic pigment made…