[split] Color annotations?

[Koen G]

I guess it depends partly on whether the person making the annotations and the person painting were different people (which was usually the case in medieval studios, but this is the VMS). Assuming they were different people, it seems very likely that a small initial almost nearly hidden in a root could be missed.

True. But even if it was the same person, the fact that he made the notes suggests some time between the note and the painting. If he made hundreds of these notes, he's still likely to miss a few.

CM: yes, but the "r" suggests red. We know that red in the VM does not look yellow.

Rene: how often do people say they see faint letters under the paint in the VM? And why are colour annotations so rare? We've got a handful for a few thousand painted surfaces. What if they were scrapped for light paint and painted over for thick paint?