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Caput mortuum (Latin for 'dead head', and variously spelled caput mortum or caput mortem), also known as cardinal purple, is the name given to a purple variety of hematite iron oxide pigment, used in oil paints and paper dyes. Due to the cultural significance of its deep purple colour, it was very popular for painting the robes of religious ...
Sanguine, Caput mortuum, Indian red, Venetian red, oxide red (PR102). Red ochre (PR102): anhydrous Fe 2 O 3. Burnt sienna (PBr7): a pigment produced by heating raw sienna. Lead pigments. Minium (pigment): also known as red lead, lead tetroxide, Pb 3 O 4. Mercury pigments. Vermilion or cinnabar (PR106): HgS.
Mummy brown, also known as Egyptian brown or Caput Mortuum, [1]: 254 [2] was a rich brown bituminous pigment with good transparency, sitting between burnt umber and raw umber in tint. [3] The pigment was made from the flesh of mummies mixed with white pitch and myrrh.
Caput mortuum (plural capita mortua; literally "dead head") is a Latin term used in alchemy to signify a useless substance left over from a chemical operation such as sublimation and the epitome of decline and decay (alternatively called nigredo).
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Vermilion pigment Natural red pigments. Red pigments are materials, usually made from minerals, used to create the red colors in painting and other arts. The color of red and other pigments is determined by the way it absorbs certain parts of the spectrum of visible light and reflects the others.
Pigments for sale at a market stall in Goa, India. A pigment is a powder used to add color or change visual appearance. Pigments are completely or nearly insoluble and chemically unreactive in water or another medium; in contrast, dyes are colored substances which are soluble or go into solution at some stage in their use.
caput inter nubila (condit) (she plunges) [her] head in the clouds: So aggrandized as to be beyond practical (earthly) reach or understanding (from Virgil's Aeneid and the shorter form appears in John Locke's Two Treatises of Government) caput mortuum: dead head