{"product_id":"cassel-earth-pigment-425138011","title":"Cassel Earth Pigment","description":"\u003cp\u003eDescription\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCassel Earth (Van Dyke Brown) is a handmade single earth pigment made through a historical process of extraction, drying, and fine grinding earth from Verona. This deep, warm brown pigment is rich in organic matter and iron oxides, creating a rich, earthy tone with subtle transparency. It is highly prized for its deep, natural brown hue, which provides excellent depth, shading, and contrast in artwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCassel Earth has exceptional lightfastness, making it highly durable for both classical and contemporary artwork. It blends seamlessly with other earth pigments, offering warm, harmonious tones in painting. Its \u003cspan\u003eSemi-Transparent\u003c\/span\u003equality allows for excellent layering, glazing, and shading effects in oil, watercolor, and tempera applications. Compared to synthetic browns, it provides a softer, more organic appearance, ideal for landscape, portrait, and decorative painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCassel Earth has been used as a pigment for centuries and gained prominence in European painting traditions. Originally composed of lignite and iron oxide, it was valued for its deep, warm brown tones and ability to create soft shadows and rich glazing effects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring antiquity, early artists used naturally occurring earth browns for cave paintings, murals, and frescoes. The high organic content of Cassel Earth made it particularly suited for naturalistic shading and tonal work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Renaissance, artists like Rembrandt and Rubens favored deep brown pigments for underpainting, portraiture, and chiaroscuro techniques. Cassel Earth was an essential color for achieving rich, moody contrasts and subtle shading effects in oil painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the 18th and 19th centuries, Cassel Earth became widely used in European academic painting and classical realism. The pigment\u003cspan\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003es transparency and soft blending qualities made it a staple for glazing, underpainting, and atmospheric effects in landscape and figure painting. In the pictured artwork 'Equestrian Portrait of Charles I' by Anthony van Dyck, earth browns are used extensively to create subdued tonality and subtle earth colors. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, Cassel Earth remains an indispensable pigment for artists, conservators, and restorers, preserving its legacy as one of the most versatile and enduring brown pigments in art history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePigment Information\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePigment Type: Natural (Iron Oxide and Organic Matter) from minerals (Goethite, Lignite, and Hematite) (Italy) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuitable Mediums: Watercolor, Oil, Tempera, Acrylic, Lime \/ Fresco, Encaustic, Cold Wax, Casein, Milk, Swedish Flour\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLightfastness: Great \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpacity: \u003cspan\u003eSemi-Transparent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther Names: Van Dyke Brown, Cologne Brown, Natural Earth Brown \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColor Index Code: NBr8\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImage: 'Equestrian Portrait of Charles I' by Anthony van Dyck from the National Gallery\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morrow Archival","offers":[{"title":"5 Grams","offer_id":47875240755422,"sku":"PE-011-0000-0005g","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100 Grams","offer_id":47875240788190,"sku":"PE-011-0000-0100g","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300 Grams","offer_id":47875240820958,"sku":"PE-011-0000-0300g","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/2821\/2702\/files\/18ebb22d-c368-42d3-86cc-967a8ba94728-copy.jpg?v=1769982487","url":"https:\/\/morrowarchival.com\/products\/cassel-earth-pigment-425138011","provider":"Morrow Archival","version":"1.0","type":"link"}