The Breslau Psalter
Yellow pigments
Artists' Materials
Yellow pigments were not part of the shared palette, and were scarcely used throughout the manuscript. The Gaibana Master and his Associate did not use yellow at all. Hands B and C used realgar, while Hand D chose a yellow earth pigment. The remaining artists probably used an organic dye to paint small pale yellow details.
Flight into Egypt
This miniature exemplifies Hand A’s sophisticated painting of drapery. The Virgin’s green cloak is shaded in green lines darker than the base green tone, but the highlights combine the traditional white patterns with areas modelled in pink and harmonising with the pink tunic beneath. This tri-chromatic modelling is among Hand A’s hallmarks.