"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere," Vincent Van Gogh once wrote. Could he have been comparing his work with painter's palette or Persian shield, works of art by Mother Nature ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has just added a new Ancient Egyptian treasure to its collection: a 3,400-year-old painter’s palette carved from a single piece of ivory. And the little ...

Unlike pigments, structural colors get their hues by reflecting light from microscopic textures. Scientists can create some of these colors by putting metal nanoparticles onto surfaces in various ...

For all the paint fragments found throughout the ancient world, on murals, pottery, sculpture, and scrolls, surprisingly few ancient paint palettes have been uncovered. Ancient palettes in the ...

For over five decades, Theatre Journal's broad array of scholarly articles and reviews has earned it an international reputation as one of the most authoritative and useful publications of theatre ...