[blam]

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[Red Badger]

Every great artist must suffer for his art..........

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[doodad]

I would believe every bit of this. Some of the most beautiful minerals (to me) are the arsenic based ones, and would yield nice pigments. I have a really nice piece of realgar. Most of the metallic sulfides are pretty, but not good for the health.

[Vicomte13]

"What happened to their apprentices, who ground and prepared the pigments on a routine basis, I don’t know."

She doesn't know?
They died.

[Cold Heart]

Don't eat the yellow dirt.

[Grammy]

It seems to me they are going wwwaaaayyyyyy overboard with this protection from poisoning bit. Heavy gloves, fume case, special protection for the public? Now, granted, it is probably not something you want your toddler chewing on, but the artists and assistants used this for more than 5 minutes and more than one project before they died, and somebody lived in or otherwise used the place where it was painted for some time as well. I don't think my walking past it, going "oh, how pretty" and walking on would put me at substantial risk.

[Larry Lucido]

Did they also find any Old Lace?