Name: A priceless purple by Harvard University in Interesting
Duration: 43 s
Description: Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains the aquatic origins of Tyrian purple.

Interesting

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains that the rich kermes red pigment was created by grinding up the dried bodies of insects that lived on the kermes oak tree.

Kermes is for crimson

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar discusses the use of cadmium yellow by the Impressionists.

Cadmium yellow

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains how artists often took risks to create their works, using poisonous pigments like emerald green to get the color just right.

Green poison

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains how the creation of a synthetic substance, which was chemically identical to the pigment produced from the semiprecious stone lapis lazuli, opened up a new world of blue hues to artists.

Synthetic blue

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains the aquatic origins of Tyrian purple.

A priceless purple

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A priceless purple

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