The Painter's Colors
Paolo Uccello
The Battle of San Romano
probably about 1438–40
Egg tempera with some oil on poplar, 182 × 320 cm. The National Gallery, London
The hedge behind the horsemen was green. The museum's record says it has darkened to almost black.
- The rose leaves mix verdigris with lead-tin yellow under a copper-green glaze, and those glazes have darkened.
- Later additions at the corners use a different copper green, artificial malachite.
Concepts
Image: Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (PD-Art)