In the 17th century, it wrote a book containing all the known colors and shades Bashny.Net

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In 1692, the year the artist known as A. Bugert, sat down to write a book about mixing watercolors in Dutch. He began the book with how it should be used color in painting and went on explaining how to obtain certain shades of color or change the tone, adding one, two or three parts of water. It sounds like simple enough, but when you consider that it was created and what the result is a book, then the project in its detail and scope seems almost incredible.

All 800 pages of the book are written (and painted) by hand. According to historian Eric Kvakkelu specializing in medieval books and translated the part of the introduction, the book was written as a textbook. The irony is that there is only one copy, and must be, very few students have seen it with my own eyes.





It's hard not to compare hundreds of pages of the book with the modern equivalent - Pantone color model, first published in 1963.





All medieval book can be viewed in high resolution here. Now the original books stored in the library Mezhan in Oaks-en-Provence, France.





via factroom.ru