History of known pigments and their chemical makeup. 77 AD to present.[A note to readers: this site is only for personal use, as it is not bibliographized. Therefore, please do not attempt to publish it: it is here as a courtesy to other painters who are interested in this material.]
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- alizarin
- alumina hydrate
- antwerp blue
- artificial barium sulphate
- asbestine
- asphaltum
- aureolin
- azure blue
- azurite & blue verditer
- barium yellow
- baryta yellow
- bile yellows
- bistre
- black toner
- black: general info
- blue bice
- blue black
- blue lead
- blue-green oxide
- blue: general info
- bone black
- bone brown
- brazilwood
- brilliant yellow
- bronze/verdigris colors
- brown madder
- brown oxide of iron/ brown pink/dutch pink
- brown: general ino
- burnt carmine/ochre
- burnt sienna/umber
- burnt green earth
- cadmium red/yellow
- calcium carbonate
- carmine/crimson lake
- cassel brown/yellow
- cerulean blue
- chalk
- chinese blue/white
- chromate of zinc
- chrome green/red/yellow
- chromium oxide (brilliant & matte)
- clay
- cobalt blue/green
- cobalt violet/yellow
- cochineal/kermes
- crap lake/madder lake
- cremintz white
- dragonsblood
- dutch
pink
- emerald green
- florentine brown
- folium & archil
- fuller's earth
- fustic
- gamboge
- giallorino-massicot
- graphite
- green cinnabar/lake
- green earths
- haematite
- hansa yellow
- harrison red
- helio fast red RBL
- honeysuckle and nightshade greens
- hydrated chrome oxide/veronese green
- indanthrene brilliant pink
- indian yellow
- indigo
- infusorial earth/fullers
- irganzine yellow
- iris green
- iron gall ink
- iron oxide black
- ivory black
- kieselguhr/fullers
- lampblack
- lead tin yellow
- lead white
- litharge/massicot
- lithol red
- lithophone
- madder lake
- malachite/green verditer
- manganese black/violet
- marble dust
- mars yellow
- mazarine
- mica/musocovite mica
- mineral black
- minium
- mixed greens
- mixed purples
- mixed white
- molybdate orange
- monastral blue / phthalocyanine
- mosaic gold
- naples yellow
- natural/artificial blue copper pigments
- new blue/ultramarine
- organic yellows
- orpiment
- paynes grey
- permalba
- permanent blue/green
- permanent green lt
- phthalocyanine blue
- prussian brown/blue
- paris/berlin blue
- purple madder/lake
- raw umber
- realgar
- red and lac lakes
- red lead/minium
- red ochre
- rhamus yellow
- rhodamine
- rose carthame/madder
- rose dore/madder
- saffron
- salt/rouen green
- sap green
- scheeles green
- sepia
- silver white
- sinopia
- smalt/starch blue
- spanish white
- strontian yellow
- terra di pozzuoli
- titanium dioxide white
- toluidine red
- turnsole
- tuscan red
- tyrian purple
- ultramarine blue/azure
- uranium yellow/oxide
- verdigris
- vermillion/cinnabar
- verte antique
- victoria green
- vine black
- violet carmine/madder
- weld lakes/ arzica
- whelk reds
- woad/woad indigo
- yellow ochres
- yellow: general info
- zinc white
- zinc yellow
