Episode 16 - Translucent Color

Bernardo Daddi, Santa Reparata Before the Emperor Decius, c. 1338-40

Tempera and gold on panel, 12 ¾ x 16 in (32.4 x 40.6 cm) (detail)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Marriage, 1434

Oil on oak, 32 14 x 23 1/2 in (82.2 x 60 cm) (detail)

National Gallery, London

Bernardo Daddi, Santa Reparata Before the Emperor Decius

Rogier van der Weyden, The Magdalen Reading, c. 1435

Oil on mahogany transferred from another panel

24 ½ x 21 ½ in (62.2 x 54.4 cm)

National Gallery, London

Refractive indices of traditional pigments

Taddeo Gaddi, Saint Julian, 1340s

Tempera on wood, gold ground, 21 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (54 x 36.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Rogier van der Weyden, Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, c 1435 – 40

Oil and tempera on panel, 54 1/8 x 43 5/8 in (137.5 x 110.8 cm)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston