Painting with gold
Artists' Techniques
Gold paint enriches many draperies, where it is shaded in pink with an organic colourant and sometimes in blue with indigo.
Gold highlighting in the 'camaïeu d'or' technique has been used for blue and pink drapery folds and for other details.
Seth planting seeds in Adam’s grave; Souls in Limbo; Debate in Parliament of Heaven
These legendary episodes derive from Arnoul Gréban’s Mystère de la Passion, a religious play performed in Paris in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. The Parliament of Heaven is represented by God encircled by female personifications of Justice, Peace, Mercy, and Truth. Addressing God, Justice and Truth argue that Adam and Eve should be punished, in contrast to Peace and Mercy who ask him to be lenient.