Appartamenti Borgia, Vatican, Rome, showing Pinturicchio’s fresco: “The Salutation” and a Portion of the Decoration of the Vault
From a Photograph by Anderson
Appartamenti Borgia, Vatican, Rome, showing Portion of “The Salutation” fresco, with Enrichments raised in Gesso
From a Photograph by Anderson
Gold, too, may be used as light in drawing, as a heightening to take the place of white on a dark-toned paper. Burne-Jones revived this method with fine results.
Gold is a most valuable means of harmonizing different colours used in the same design or decoration, and is often useful as an outline in flat decoration, and while it can be effectively used with the full range of colour where very rich effects are sought, it also combines well with any single colour in decoration.
The late G. F. Watts told me he considered blue and gold to be the typical colours of the universe.
Certainly they form one of the most—if not the most—beautiful of harmonies.