I didn't realize it was that easy back then to get your hands on ancient Egyptian mummies to grind up for paint pigment.....
'Mummy Brown' was a paint pigment containing the ground-up remains of Ancient Egyptian mummies. The pigment was popular among European painters in the 16th century until the early 20th centurypic.twitter.com/T3p1z01eJQ
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It was ridiculously easy to get mummies. It was a point of pride having an Egyptian mummy IN YOUR LIVING ROOM even. That's how Rosemont Museum a house-now-museum in Pueblo, CO got a mummy. Rich people bought mummies as conversation pieces.
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Basically because it wasn't just the pharaoh who got mummified. There was a large retinue that joined him or her in the afterlife (not to mention cats).
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Imagine the spiritual essence imbued into the painting.
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Fun fact: Carmine (the pigment) is made from crushed bugs and is used in food dye. Therefore food colored with carmine food dye isn't considered vegan.
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Used to be the main coloring in Campari.pic.twitter.com/rPokBEd6WV
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When i'm in a art store and see a tube of Mummy Brown oil paint i think "is this the modern synthetic type, or did someone sneak in the real stuff?"
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Sadly, this is not the strangest thing that Europeans have done with mummies.
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Painting people with people!
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"Mummy" was also the falconer's cure for the snerts. It was made of ground up mummies, too. There was an old book from the 1800s in the stacks of our local library. (reprint, not the original!)
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I would love to know what the snerts are
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It's the old falconer's term for the sniffles.
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Mummy, as a medicine, was also found in European apothecaries as late as the first decade of the 20th Century
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Thought you were going to say "...until they all disappeared under mysterious circumstances."
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No points for guessing what the pigments "Puke", "Gooseturd" and "Dead Spaniard" were made from...
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when one painter learned the origin he held a funeral for his tube of Mummy Brown
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Makes sense...
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