The Painter's Colors
Egyptian, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18
Lump of Blue Paste (Egyptian blue)
about 1473–1458 BCE
Paste, L. 1 × H. 0.6 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
This is the pigment before it became paint: a crumb about 1 cm long, found in a burial inside the tomb of Senenmut at Thebes.
- Copper gives it its blue.
Concepts
Image: The Met Open Access (via Wikimedia Commons) · CC0