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ColourLex (colourlex.com) is an amazing website that mixes chemistry and art. The creators of this website have extensively catalogued paintings and the pigments that were used to create them. The pigments range from artificial to natural and organic to inorganic. You can search for the specific combination that you want to see.
Learning Goals
There could be a variety of ways that this website could be used. The learning goals would depend on what it was being used for.
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I generally use this website as a way to find real examples of solid-state inorganic compounds to show in classes or use on exams.
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Students seem to like the examples that this website has.
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This is a fantastic website which I was not aware of. Thanks!
As a cultural heritage scientist, I use ColourLex a lot, but also the older Pigments through the Ages http://www.webexhibits.org/pigments/ and even more so the synthetic organic pigment data (although they do have all the inorganic ones too) from Art is Creation here http://www.artiscreation.com/
I am also a big proponent of working art into undergraduate and graduate chemical education, so feel free to call on me if I can help out. I am an analytical chemist by training, but my PhD was all on Ru(bpy)3 complexes, so I can stumble my way around inorganic chemistry too.
Greg Smith
Sr. Conservation Scientist
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
gdsmith@discovernewfields.org