#orpiment

2.15" Yellow Orpiment - Russia

Baryte & Orpiment | Quiruvilca Mine, Quiruvilca District, Santiago de Chuco Province, Libertad Department, Peru

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This painting depicts the personification of the wisdom text Prajnaparamita. She is represented in six-armed form, the central hands are held over the heart in a variation of the dharmacakramudra, whilst her upper hands display the sacred book (pustaka) and the thunderbolt scepter (vajra), whilst her lower hands hold a rosary (mala) and gesture boon granting. She wears golden jewelry on her body and a tripartite diadem adorns herhead, which is framed by a red halo. A girdle, seemingly of strings of pearls, secures her waistcloth, beautifully decorated with large red rosettes in blue hexagonal frames. Slender ribbons fly through the air, one supporting a blue lotus bloom and stem. She is seated in a mediation posture, enthroned on a golden lotus and she is encircled in a rainbow colored nimbus. Particularly noteworthy is the tonal modelling of the bodily forms, heightened with finely controlled orange-red lines. The swelling breasts and constricted waist are hallmarks of the Kashmir style.

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didn't realize orpiment and realgar are closely related gemstones until i was drawing this guy, so he also gets the poncho treatment

Orpiment used to be used in paints. Unfortunately, it contains dangerous amounts of arsenic!