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

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