"Some of the hues (especially beige and marc) are unique in the Egyptian art." This is from an email message of Francesco Tiradritti's talking points. It is repeated in the article. What color is "marc". Is it an Italian name for a color? I can't find it anywhere and I don't recall ever seeing the word before????? Anybody? AS for the beige ....
Read carefully the entry for the tomb in Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids pages 199-204. The use of color in this tomb is extraordinary, experimental and sometimes unique.
From a fragment:
"The wings of the duck are
black on top and gray with feathers delin-
eated in black below. The gray must have
been obtained by mixing white with black.
The neck and head are also gray, and the
body has a vermiculated effect, typical of
the species, that was achieved with black
brushstrokes over a gray area."
Another
"The cattle are differentiated by
color: the nearer animal is a dark red-
brown, the one behind it a yellowish light
brown."p204
Yellowish light brown = beige?
"These few fragments from a once-
magnificent large image provide an inkling
of the level of quality the art of painting
had reached in the early Fourth Dynasty.
It was a level seldom equaled in later
Egyptian art."
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