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Chemistry of colour
Red lakes
Discover how red pigments originate from the cochineal beetle
In this episode, David Peggie from our Scientific Department explains the use of cochineal beetles and red lakes in Titian's painting, Diana and Callisto.
Chemistry of colour
Journey through a spectrum of colours with our Scientific Department as we explore some of the different pigments used in our paintings.
Learn about some of the weird and wonderful ways pigments were historically produced, and see how we identify them today.
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Chemistry of colour
Malachite
Journey through a spectrum of colours with our Scientific Department as we explore some of the different pigments used in our paintings
Titian's technique
Watch artist Andy Pankhurst show us how Titian would have worked
Titian's Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto
Beautiful but deadly; hear more about Titian's retelling of Ovid's poignant stories of Diana in paint
Modern discoveries about Titian's poesie
A look 'beneath' Titian's canvases reveals the tweaks and changes he made as he worked over four hundred years ago
Unlocking Leonardo
15 years after discovering a hidden drawing beneath Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks, we uncover more of the mystery