14-03-2018, 12:08 AM
(13-03-2018, 06:21 PM)Diane wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
There's no need to explain away the Voynich palette by inventing dramas of scarcity in the atelier. If there's red in the manuscript then pink was a possibility. If there's red and blue, purple-to-black is a possibility. If nothing in the pink-purple-black has been used (allowing for the effects of time), either it can't be explained or it needs a more reasonable explanation than hypothetical shortages of pink pigment.
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I've met a surprising number of people who can't mix colors (or who avoid it because they are afraid they will muddy and waste the pigment).
White and red are used very sparingly in the VMS. A true red was scarce in some places (those on better budgets could afford coccineal). I don't know the explanation for there being so little white or for why the red and white were not blended, but a true red was a somewhat costly item, so I think scarcity is sometimes to be taken into consideration.
The greens seemed to have been mixed quite a bit in the plant section, but one painter clearly did it more frequently than the other.