Atramentum - sekret Apellesa

Abstract

The main topic of this paper is atramentum - pigment described by Pliny the Elder and Vitruvius, used in painting and architecture. Probably it was a secret of painter’s unusal achieves. The most possible is that he prepared his own atramentum from wax and burnt ivory. When I look at the paintings from Lefkadia or Kazanlak I suppose that atramentum in painter’s workshop was black but diluted atramentum became blue.