Among these pigments was orpiment, a striking deep orange-yellow derived from an arsenic mineral. Its beauty was unmatched, ...

Eight restorers are working on the piece in a specially designed glass chamber for the operation's first stage.

I knew about wallpapers that had arsenic pigment and I knew of book illustrations that had arsenic pigment in them, but you ...

Arsenic gets its name from a Persian word for the yellow pigment now known as orpiment. For keen lexicographers apparently the Persian word in question Zarnikh was subsequently borrowed by the Greeks ...

The firm founded by key arts and crafts thinker William Morris was involved in controversy with arsenic Some popular pigments of green developed in the 18th and 19th Centuries and used in paints ...

Victorian-era publishers used arsenic to colour book bindings, in pigments such as Paris Green, Emerald Green and Scheele's Green, named after a German-born chemist. The Poison Book Project says ...