{"id":1574,"date":"2010-10-13T01:16:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T18:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2012-01-17T14:12:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T07:12:57","slug":"pompeian-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2010\/10\/pompeian-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompeian Red"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House of Lucretius Fonto<\/p><\/div>\n

As we arrived in Rome, my daughter asked what is the one thing you hope to do while in Italy? I\u00a0replied, ”\u00a0See the real<\/span> Pompeian Red.”<\/p>\n

I have longed to see\u00a0the\u00a0ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum\u00a0since my first architectural history course. The reason had nothing to do with architecture or with\u00a0history. The reason had to do with color. I was smitten with Pompeian Red.<\/p>\n

Pompeian Red was discovered on the fresco walls when the\u00a0ruins were uncovered.\u00a0Still bright red after thousands of years buried under the ash of Mount Vesuvius, the color showed up in the background of painting after painting adorning the\u00a0interior rooms of many of the buildings.\u00a0 I have seen many photos of these paintings and always wondered, “What does Pompeian Red really look like?”<\/p>\n

\"Villa<\/a>\u00a0The chemistry of the\u00a0red\u00a0pigment <\/a>used in these gorgeous\u00a0paintings was analyzed in 2004.\u00a0 “Basically, the ancient Romans simply added some bigger grains to the finely processed cinnabar powder, made of grains measuring about 2-3 microns. The result was a glittering surface that did not loose its saturated red tone.”<\/p>\n

We went to the ruins, and then I went by myself to the Archeological Museum in Naples where most of the walls have been moved to. I sat myself down in the middle of three walls from Pompeii – and came close to tears.\u00a0 What a beautiful color!<\/p>\n

After a few minutes of contemplation and gratitude for being there, my color analyst kicked in. Exactly what color of\u00a0red is it?\u00a0I was reminded of\u00a0Chinese Red.\u00a0But with a little more depth of shade. And a touch, just a touch, of mud.\u00a0\u00a0I would call it a deep, rich, luminous, vermilion\u00a0red<\/a>.\u00a0 How could I\u00a0come close to\u00a0it in polymer?\u00a0\u00a0Maybe by starting with cadmium red? At that point I wished I had some color swatches and then I\u00a0thought, “Maggie! Forget trying to figure out how to match the color! Just enjoy finally being here.”<\/p>\n

And I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we arrived in Rome, my daughter asked what is the one thing you hope to do while in Italy? I\u00a0replied, ”\u00a0See the real Pompeian Red.” I have longed to see\u00a0the\u00a0ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum\u00a0since my first architectural history course. The reason had nothing to do with architecture or with\u00a0history. The reason had to do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colorscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}