Ventilago

Description

A natural red dye obtained from the plant Ventilago maderaspatana native to the East Indies (Mayer 1969). Ventilago has poor lightfastness.

Resources and Citations

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

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