On: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 Tony Riley wrote:- > As for why I wanted to do this in the first place, I thought it would be > interesting to try and see how some of the paintings in the tombs at the > Valley of The Kings might have looked to the people that painted them. I > have a notion that some sort of painting by numbers/colour management > system must have been in use as the colours would have looked radically > different deep underground with only animal fat lanterns as spot light > sources.
The artists who painted those pictures knew exactly what colour was what, as most of the pigments used were premixed above ground. In daylight. William Curwen =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
