(23-05-2020, 08:35 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
JKP, where do you see true red? In the large plants section, most I was able to find was some reddish rusty brown.
Well this turned out to be harder than I expected. Assuming the color fidelity from scan to scan is true (which it might not be), there's almost no true red. When you zoom out, it tends to look redder if it's a small area of red.
Also, now that I've really looked at it, I'm almost certain that it is a continuum (that the red and brown have been mixed or that the reddish-brown is from different mixtures and some are redder than others but were CHOSEN for their shades). I tend to think they have been mixed in much the same way as the greens have been (obviously) mixed.
I did this very quickly... there might be mistakes, and there is much less red than I expected. Some folios, especially the small-plant folios, have numerous shades of brick.
This looks like it breaks into categories, but it really is a continuum of shades (many shades). About a third of them could easily have fit into categories in between these:
red-brick, but closer to true red You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f21v (?) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (in between brick and true red) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f53v (?) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f81r (?) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (?) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (?) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (?) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f89r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (?)
brick red and some brick red that is closer to true red f3r f4r f6r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f10r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (stem/roots) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f14v (brick red) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f16r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (closer to true red than most of the brick shades) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f18r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f20r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (dark brick red) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (flowers) f28r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f35r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f40v You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f44r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f46v (dark) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f50r (stalk, upper root) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f53r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f55r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f67r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f71r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f72r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f73v You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f73v You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f75v You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f78r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f79r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f80r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f81v You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f82v You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f83v You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f88r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f89r f95v1 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f99r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f100v f101r2 f102r1 f102r2 f101v2 f102v1 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f103v You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f104v to 116r
orangy red? or faded red? or red wash? f7r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f17r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (stalk) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f47v You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f78r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f88v f89r2 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f99v f101r
brick red that leans more toward brown than red You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (roots) You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f22r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f23v You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f34r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f52r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f65r You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f88v f89r2 f89v2 f95v2 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f99v You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 102r1 102r2 f101v2 f102v1 f102v2
The only one that comes close to true red is You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. but maybe it only looks that way because the scan is a little brighter.
The painters may have had some red pigment to create the redder mixtures of reddish-brick shades or perhaps they had a batch of ochre that was particularly red and added in some vermillion.
Interestingly... there are no reddish shades anywhere in Quire 14 (rosettes section).