Sandro Botticelli, Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius

Sandro Botticelli, Four Scenes from the Early Life of Saint Zenobius, ca 1500-05
National Gallery London

Sandro Botticelli, Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius, 1500-10
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sandro Botticelli, Last Miracle and the Death of Saint Zenobius, ca 1500
Gemäldegalerie alter Meister, Dresden

This pigment analysis is based on the work of Jill Dunkerton and Ashok Roy from the National Gallery in London (1).

1 The cope of Saint Zenobius: red lake
2 The dark violet shoe of the youth: vegetable black, lead white and a little red ochre

3 The dark violet shoe of the figure: vegetable black, lead white and a little red ochre

4 Violet cloak of the man: azurite, lead white and red lake, the shadows are painted in vermilion, red lake and vegetable black

5 The dark green sleeve of the beggar: artificial malachite (green verditer) and lead-tin yellow
6 Yellow cloak of the beggar: lead-tin yellow over lead-tin yellow and yellow ochre. Shadows contain lead-tin yellow, yellow ochre, lead white, and a little vermilion.

References

(1) Dunkerton, J., Roy, A. ‘The Materials of a Group of Late Fifteenth-century Florentine Panel Paintings’. National Gallery Technical Bulletin Vol 17, pp 20–31

(1) Dunkerton, J., Roy, A. ‘The Materials of a Group of Late Fifteenth-century Florentine Panel Paintings’. National Gallery Technical Bulletin Vol 17, pp 20–31