Focus on Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Vermeer) and explore the Painting materials.
The pigment analysis of this painting reveals the use of the pigments of the baroque period such as madder lake, yellow ochre, vermilion and lead white. Vermeer did not paint the robe of Christ with his usual blue pigment of choice ultramarine (see for example The Milkmaid) but with a mixture of smalt, indigo and lead white.
smalt yellow ochre vermilion lead white ultramarine The Milkmaid indigo madder lake baroque