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FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE FRANCE OF ROI SOLEIL Throughout the 1500s the extreme religious strictness imposed by the Protestant Reformation and then the Counter Reformation brought about a backlash resulting in more austere forms and the triumph of black, and in Catholic areas the imitation of models imposed by …

  THE MOST COMMONLY USED NATURAL COLORS./2 WOAD, INDIGO, MUREX, MADDER. Natural products from the respective territories were used as raw materials for the dyes. Red was the first color, and as we have seen it was obtained first from ochre, and then from madder, a plant common in the …

  Herbaceous plant typical of sub-alpine areas, from wich a light blue dye was obtained. Milled into a paste, the leaves were mixed into masses which after two weeks were again treated and mixed, and formed into solid spheres or “pani”, which were then sold. Woad replaced madder as the …