Green earth

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Green earth is a rather weakly colored, gray-green earth pigment . The weathering product of augite and hornblende consists mainly of bivalent iron silicate in fired form . The shade varies depending on the proportions of iron , silicon , magnesium , potassium , aluminum and sodium . Burnt green earth has a rather brownish tone.

The variants are named according to their place of origin, e.g. B. Bavarian , Bohemian , Veronese , Belgian , Hessian , Rhenish or Tyrolean Green Earth .

The pigment has been known since ancient times and was mainly used by the Romans for wall paintings . It is typical of the greenish underpainting ( Verdaccio ) of skin tones (of the incarnate ) in Italian painting of the Renaissance, see references. In particular, green earths are used today in monument preservation.

literature

  • The textbook painters and varnishers . Bildungsverlag EINS, Troisdorf, ISBN 978-3-427-01590-1 , page 192ff
  • Grissom, CA Green Earth, in Artists' Pigments. A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics, Vol. 1, L. Feller, Ed., Cambridge University Press, London 1986, p. 141-167
  • Almut Schaeffner: Terra Verde. Development and importance of monochrome wall painting in the Italian Renaissance. VDG, Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-89739-573-2 A printed work that deals in detail with the Terra Verde.
    • The so-called terra verde technique, green painting or green monochrome painting, is a sub-branch of monochrome painting, which is generally summarized with the generic term grisaille. So far, this topic has only received general attention in the context of the grisaille technique. With this treatise, the green painting, which has a special place in the wall decoration of the early Renaissance Italy, is treated for the first time in a monograph. The focus is on questions of color history and color technology. For the first time, this volume presents this extraordinary form of wall painting in Italy from the 14th to 16th centuries in detail in 80 fundamentally researched monuments. Century ago.
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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short texts on the preservation of monuments: Description of the pigment green earth ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ kunstwissen.de: Color and its extraction / use , accessed on May 22, 2013.