Making Purple: The Science of Art | 國家畫廊, 倫敦

Visit the National Gallery’s Scientific Department to see how the blue and red pigments traditionally mixed to make purple paint are analysed and identified. The methods used range from state-of-the-art electron microscopy to recreating historic methods for obtaining pigments.

This film accompanies the National Gallery exhibition ‘Making Colour’ (18 六月 – 7 九月 2014).

More about the exhibition:
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/making-colour

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