Palette (painting art)
In painting, a palette is a board with a thumb hole made of mostly polished wood , more rarely made of porcelain or metal, for mixing the colors while painting. Painters mainly use palettes when painting with oil paints .
The palette is sometimes more precisely referred to as the painter's palette , color palette , color palette, or mixed palette . The expression palette comes from the French palette “small round board” from the Latin pala , which means something like “spade” or “shovel”.
The oldest evidence of the palette are the reproductions of the hand-mirror-shaped device in the miniatures of an illuminated manuscript in the biographical collection De mulieribus claris by Giovanni Boccaccio from 1374. A manual from 1795 describes the use of the palette as follows: The painter therefore guides the colors on this board that he needs by himself. Above are the simple colors, below are the mixed colors . "Palettes by some famous painters are kept in museums.
The palette in its characteristic asymmetrical form is often used as a symbol or attribute, it then stands as a symbol of painting or as a label for the " pictura ", the personification of painting.
Georg Friedrich Kersting : Caspar David Friedrich in his studio with a palette
Palette painted with miniatures by various painters of the 19th century
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Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Heinrich Orell: Complete theoretical and practical history of inventions , 1795
- ↑ 50 pallets of well-known painters, the photographer Schaller depicted in: Gottfried Boehm (text) and Matthias Schaller (photos): Das Meisterwerk , Petrus books, 2015
