Think You Got Colors?

[Brilliant Bill]

Interesting, 300 years before Pantone, an artist created his own 800-page index of colours...

http://passiongaleria.com/2017/300-years-pantone-artist-created-800-page-index-colours/

[earthdawn]

Wow thats pretty amazing actually.

Nice find!

[migo984]

A year or so ago someone posted a link to a page-by-page downloadable version of this work, & I also read an article about a translation in progress. I'll have to re-visit it. Thanks for the reminder of a beautiful document.

[naimitsu]

I've noticed that many watercolor artists do something like this still. Depending on how long they've been at it, their book might be just as large!

[sharmon202]

Thanks for sharing this was excellent