aureolin

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  • The palette is fairly limited; we see a yellow that may be aureolin (although it could be a now obsolete color, strontium yellow, which was semi-opaque), a blue that is probably Prussian blue, and Chinese white. —  American Artist
  • For Vert_:--_emerald green_, with Chinese white and a little gum: shade with dark green, made from mixing aureolin (or gamboge_) with Prussian blue and gum. —  The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • To our knowledge, aureolin is quite uninjured by the severest tests to which a pigment can be subjected. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
  • The artistic properties of aureolin, however, will be best described by quoting the following extract from Mr. Aaron Penley's English School of Painting in Water Colours I have fully tested the qualifications of Aureolin for the Landscape Painter, and, without hesitation, pronounce it to be the most valuable addition to the 'colour box' since the introduction of Rose Madder. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
  • Both in a chemical and artistic sense, therefore, this new primitive yellow merits the highest regard, and justly claims a foremost place among that little band of pigments which are without fear and without reproach For mural decoration, aureolin is admirably adapted, but it cannot be used in enamel, the colour being destroyed by great heat CADMIUM YELLOWS Of these there are three tints, Deep_, a so-called Pale_, and Lemon 21. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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  1. from Latin aureolus, diminutive of aureus, golden, yellow (see aureous), + -in.
 

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