The theory of color in its relation to art and art-industry (1876)
Bezold, Wilhelm von, 1837-1907, Pickering, Edward C. (Edward Charles), 1846-1919 · Boston : L. Prang and Co. · leaf 129
nothing is leftbut that part of the red which the ultramarine allows topass, that is to say, a red of a very low degree of luminosity.Such a red, however, is equivalent to reddish brown. If now, instead of vermilion, we employ madder-lake (of ashade approaching purple), the difference between the… … spectrum of madder-lake, besides red and orange, containsalso some violet; and while, therefore, the mixture upon therotating disk shows a beautiful purplish violet (nearer toviolet than that previously obtained), the mixture of the twopigments will also give us a violet, although of a…
Color · Decoration and ornament · Painting
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