Pantone 82877 is known as the Mummy Brown. It is also known that organic materials in painting, give a very nice transparent hue. Edward Burne-Jones’s great painting (279 × 650 cm) ‘Last sleep of Arthur in Avalon’ is painted using a rich brown bituminous pigment, known already at the time as ‘mummy brown’.When medieval European…
Fishing Nets and Mummies
By Athanassios Tubidis
