The French Impressionist painters discovered new means for painting light - they used a "solar palette", the pigments matched to the colors the eyes see. They a

The 19th century was a century of new pigments. They were derived from recently recognised metals?cadmium, chrome, zinc and others? as well as from the discover

Impressionism has captured the imagination of people the world over since its first exhibition in Paris in 1874. People have long sought to understand how and w

'Impressionists in Their Gardens' explores gardens through the senses of the Impressionists from three continents - Europe, North America and Australia - enjoyi

This study analyzes the impact of color-making technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dy