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Stone for Colour Grinding

Creation period
Early 20th century
Dimensions
52х55х7 cm
Technique
mineral, manganese compound, polishing
Exhibition
3
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Stone for Colour Grinding
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The collection of the Arzamas Art Museum includes a stone for colour grinding from the A. V. Stupin School of Painting. It was found after a major fire at the School in November 1842. 

Painters have always known a thing or two about more than just artistic mastery – they have been good at many other arts and sciences like anatomy, scripture and social history, physics, geometry, chemistry, and others. 

Since times immemorial, artists have used natural paints only. Chapter 29 of Heraclius’s treatise De coloribus et artibus romanorum says:
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“Take limestone and oil, commensurably, mix them and boil, removing the froth. Add a certain amount of white lead in proportion with the added oil, and place it under the sun for a month or more, stirring frequently. Remember, the longer oil stands in the sun the better.”
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Colours would be ground by apprentices, sometimes artists themselves, therefore knowledge of chemistry was a must. Pyotr Kornilov, an art historian and collector, wrote: “Chemistry is useful in painting due to ingredient materials which have a bearing on the convenience, endurance, and quality of the work.” By the way, Stupin’s painting school in Arzamas had a special-purpose room, a colour grinding shop, where the students prepared paints for work by grinding, mixing, and diluting. The rhodonite stone from the museum collection is an irregular-shaped pentagon, well polished on top. For centuries, it was thought to be helpful in developing artistic talent, especially in painting.
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Rhodonite is a mineral, a manganese compound, sedimentary rock. Its name originated from the Greek ῥόδον meaning ‘rose’.
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The best known rhodonite mine in Russia is in the Urals, south of Yekaterinburg. Rhodonite also occurs in central India, North America, British Columbia, and Australia. 
 
Rhodonite is otherwise called manganese spar or manganolite. It has bright and beautiful colour and is easy to polish. It’s a high-quality mineral, so it is broadly used as a decorative and applied arts material, as a gem, and a facing stone. The State Hermitage in St. Petersburg hold a lot of art articles made of rhodonite by 19th century Russian masters. 
 
In world art, one of the largest rhodonite articles is a seven-ton sarcophagus cut out of a 47-tonne monolith discovered in the Malosidelnikovskoye field in the Urals. Pink-purple rhodonite stripes were used as finish for Mayakovskaya metro station columns in Moscow. Also, rhodonite was used for decoration of a hall at the Grand Kremlin Palace. 

Rhodonite is known for its magic features, too. It is viewed as a strong stone, a patron stone for people of culture and art. It arouses hidden talents in persons, develops love of arts and generally love of all that is subtle and beautiful, and brings everybody’s recognition and fame. 
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Stone for Colour Grinding

Creation period
Early 20th century
Dimensions
52х55х7 cm
Technique
mineral, manganese compound, polishing
Exhibition
3
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