Re: VMs: RE: Colored paints, touch-ups, and the michiton text

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 01:13 02/07/2004 -0700, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> Although it isn't really good form to quote a post
> of someone else, just to add 'I agree', I thought
> I'd make an exception.
> I fully aree with GC's assessment here. Even
> if some colour may have been applied later,
> we can't really make too much from that. It may
> even have been someone else than the writer,
> just a couple of days later (just to give one
> possibility).

I completely agree that a small amount of the colouring was done by the 
original outline artist - for example, I've flagged the nymphs' cheeks and 
mouths as being original features right from the start. I also suspect that 
the red/yellow starred paragraphs were originally coloured too (with the 
yellow faded away somewhat relative to the red).

To my eyes, the herbal and balneo sections look overwhelmingly 
over-painted: the central zodiac figures may well be overpainted too. 
However, note that the "Regulus" nymph has a faded red crown, which I 
suspect was an original colour (though I have no proof).

Who coloured the pharma section? Or the cosmo section? Or the nine rosette 
page? If we ask ourselves a series of very specific questions like these, 
perhaps we can reach more of a consensus than the more conservative might 
think possible.

At the very least, we can point to an original artist (careful, precise, 
thoughtful) and an overpainter (careless, unconcerned, thoughtless) here: 
and we should be able to identify the exact palette of colours each had, 
surely?

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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