Difference between revisions of "Caput mortuum"

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An obsolete name for a reddish-brown pigment prepared by calcining red iron oxide.

caput mortuum (It.); caput mortum (sp.)

Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)

R.D. Harley, Artists' Pigments c. 1600-1835, Butterworth Scientific, London, 1982

Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982

Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000

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 == Description ==
-An obsolete name for a reddish-brown pigment prepared by calcining [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=iron%20oxide%20red red iron oxide].
+An obsolete name for a reddish-brown pigment prepared by calcining [[iron oxide red|red iron oxide]].
-See [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=Venetian%20red Venetian red], and [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=Indian%20red Indian red].
+See [[Venetian red]], and [[Indian red]].
 == Synonyms and Related Terms ==