271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book

271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book

In 1692 an artist known only as “A. Boogert” sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one, two, or three parts of water. The premise sounds simple enough, but the final product is almost unfathomable in its detail and scope.

Spanning nearly 800 completely handwritten (and painted) pages, Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau, was probably the most comprehensive guide to paint and color of its time. According to Medieval book historianErik Kwakkel who translated part of the introduction, the color book was intended as an educational guide. The irony being there was only a single copy that was probably seen by very few eyes.

It’s hard not to compare the hundreds of pages of color to its contemporary equivalent, the Pantone Color Guide, which wouldn’t be published for the first time until 1963.
The entire book is viewable in high resolution here, and you can read a description of it here (it appears E-Corpus might have crashed for the moment). The book is currently kept at the Bibliothèque Méjanes in Aix-en-Provence, France. (via Erik Kwakkel)

source:

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/05/color-book/

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PANTONE 보다 271년 앞선 손으로 그리고 쓴 800여 페이지에 달하는 컬러에 관한 책.

수채화 컬러를 만드는 법(물을 얼마나 섞어야 하고 무슨 컬러를 섞어야 하는지에 관한 내용들)을 설명하는 이 책은

교육용으로 만든 것 같다는데 손으로 만들어져서 단 한 권 뿐이라 널리 보급이 불가능했던 ㅎㅎ 

1692년이면 아직 17세기였을 때 만들어진 책이다. 대단!!