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Colors across Great Artworks
(files.catbox.moe)
Tools:
- Microsoft Excel
- Python
- R
- Adobe Illustrator
Sources (viewed online July 2024):
Artworks, lists and scripts available here: paulgalea.com/Infographics/Colors_across_Great_Artworks-Infographic_Information.txt
How much of this is the original color fading to brown? Those art restoration videos are pretty wild to watch where they remove the oxidized and dirty top layer and reseal the painting.
This was my thought exactly. Pigments in paints fade with time, many older artworks' paints were more unstable than today's compounds, with many artists actually making their own paints back in the day.
We'll never know but I'd certain that the original colors were more vibrant.
Still, this is really freaking cool.