A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan

[tinkertrain]

So cool!

A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete High-Resolution Digital Scan

There’s ahead of its time, then there’s Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau -- or, in its original Dutch title, Klaer Lightende Spiegel der Verfkonst, a 900-page book of paint colors made before any such things were common tools of the artist’s, scientist’s, and industrial...

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[Iain]

A thing of beauty for sure. The gold leaf ? on page 24 pops against the white page. Maybe it is the flash from the digital capture, but I love when colours work off each other like that.