Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color as well as form; the white marble statues we admire looked stunningly different in antiquity. They were painted with a palette that displayed a ...

Notable results include the identification of the first known use of a new gray color in Pompeian art. The presence of barite and alunite in the pigments provides the first evidence of the use of ...

An ancient white pigment as seen during the analysis. Photo from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii Researchers said their findings offer a glimpse into “almost the entire palette of an ancient ...

A new project from Vollebak, though, sees Steve and Nick Tidball – the adventurous twin brothers who founded the label – mine the past for ancient materials to enhance ... their actual colour palette ...