The Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1520
Workshop of Gerard David (Netherlandish, born about 1455, died 1523)
Oil on wood

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (Italian, Venetian, 1528–1588)
Oil on canvas

note move away from bright primary pigments ( red, blue, yellow, green)

note Venetian: port of color

Virgin and Child with Four Angels, ca. 1510–1515
Gerard David (Netherlandish, born about 1455, died 1523)
Oil on wood

"Color doesn't Matter"

Italian/Schools:

disegno (drawing) vs colore (color)

Palette: hardly changed from medieval

inherited taboo: no mixing (recall muddy mixes from subtractive color mixing)

Use of Oil Based Paints: pigments appear different.

Ultramarine over lead white for pale skies. Once mixed with "vulgar white", it loses its regal mystique!

Move away from the Church: True to Nature

Need more greens!! Malachite dark in oil, new synthetic pigment copper resinate

Also leads to first use of B + Y = G

Some new blues: verditer (a Cu carbonate) and cobalt "smalt". Dangers of cobalt mining

Loss of gilding with loss of symbolic importance of pigments.