ORANGE by GARAGELAND

Photography • Flowers/Plants • posted on Jul 10, 2013

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Before the late 15th century, the colour orange existed in Europe, but without the name; it was simply called yellow-red. Spanish and Portuguese merchants brought the first orange trees to Europe from Asia in the late 15th and early 16th century, along with the sanskrit name "naranga," which gradually became "orange" in English. In ancient Egypt, artists used an orange mineral pigment called realgar for tomb paintings and other uses. It was also used later by Medieval artists for the colouring of manuscripts. Pigments were also made in ancient times from a mineral known as orpiment. Orpiment was an important item of trade in the Roman Empire and was used as a medicine in China although it contains arsenic and is highly toxic. It was also used as a fly poison and to poison arrows. Because of its yellow-orange colour, it was also a favourite with alchemists searching for a way to make gold, both in China and the West. Please ZOOOOOOM for full Orange Flavour. Have a nice day,

Comments (13)

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durleybeachbum

8:43AM | Wed, 10 July 2013

Delicious image!

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jayfar

8:44AM | Wed, 10 July 2013

Very nice indeed and new info to me.

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prutzworks

9:57AM | Wed, 10 July 2013

just the right amount of DOF beautiful capture

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photosynthesis

10:29AM | Wed, 10 July 2013

Very lushly colored image. Strange to think that Europeans didn't have a name for what we now consider one of the seven major colors of the visible spectrum as late as the 1400's...