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Interior of a Kitchen by Martin Drolling(1815) #arthistory
Martin Drolling’s Interior of a Kitchen is believed to have been painted using quite a lot of a pigment called “Mummy Brown.” As strange as it sounds, this paint was actually made by grinding up real mummified bodies and mixing the powder with things like myrrh and white pitch (a kind of tree resin).
It was pretty popular from the 1700s to the mid-1800s, but people eventually stopped using it, partly because they were literally running out of mummies, and partly because, well, it wasn’t great paint.
Since it came from preserved corpses, it contained stuff like fats and ammonia, which made it unstable. The paint would often crack over time and could even mess with the other colours on the canvas.
It was pretty popular from the 1700s to the mid-1800s, but people eventually stopped using it, partly because they were literally running out of mummies, and partly because, well, it wasn’t great paint.
Since it came from preserved corpses, it contained stuff like fats and ammonia, which made it unstable. The paint would often crack over time and could even mess with the other colours on the canvas.
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Martin Drolling’s Interior of a Kitchen is believed to have been painted using quite a lot of a pigment called “Mummy Brown.” As strange as it sounds, this paint was actually made by grinding up real mummified bodies and mixing the powder with things like…
Victorians were so weird about this whole Mummy thing
The reason why we have so little mummified bodies now is because Victorians ate most of them
The reason why we have so little mummified bodies now is because Victorians ate most of them
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"The Four Strings of the Violin" by Edward Okun (1914) #arthistory
Here we see a kind of funeral where a violin rests, surrounded by chrysanthemums. Four women process to bid farewell to the musical instrument mourning its "death." It's a strange almost dreamlike scene.
However if we look at the noscript "The Four Strings of the Violin" the symbolism is clear: each of these women represents one of the instrument's four strings.
From left to right, the woman with a solemn face who bows deeply with a more open mouth represents G (Sol), the lowest string of the violin. D (Re) and A (La) are the middle strings, the first is elegant with fine features while the second with her dark hair glances at the instrument sideways and is not as serious. These three women utter sounds with their mouths that recall their respective notes.
Finally, on the right, the highest note, E (Mi), does not sing. She appears the most mysterious. She has darker hair and stares intently at the instrument.
However if we look at the noscript "The Four Strings of the Violin" the symbolism is clear: each of these women represents one of the instrument's four strings.
From left to right, the woman with a solemn face who bows deeply with a more open mouth represents G (Sol), the lowest string of the violin. D (Re) and A (La) are the middle strings, the first is elegant with fine features while the second with her dark hair glances at the instrument sideways and is not as serious. These three women utter sounds with their mouths that recall their respective notes.
Finally, on the right, the highest note, E (Mi), does not sing. She appears the most mysterious. She has darker hair and stares intently at the instrument.
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"The Four Strings of the Violin" by Edward Okun (1914) #arthistory
برای همه معرفی نقاشی هایی که گذاشتم هشتک زدم راحت پیداشون کنید(هیچ کس نمیبینه و اهمیت نمیده)
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