What Painting Is: How to Think about Oil Painting ... - Victoria Vesna

238 WHAT PAINTING IS
shorn, 123
phlogiston theory, 60, 110–1
phosphorus, 110, 185
photography, 41, 99
Picasso, 171
picture plane, 157
pigments, see under individual
pigments
Pigs,
bladders, 20
blood, 21
Pincas, Abraham, 202 n.8
pine pitch, 127
Planetary Mountains, 191
planets, 107–8
plants, 33
plaster, 21
plastic, 25–6, 34
plays, 124
Pollock, Jackson, 89–94, 96
polyethylene, 26
Polyps, 49
Poseidon, 185
Postimpressionism, 70, 198
postmodern art, 75, 125, 147
potash, 33
symbol of, 65
potassium nitrate, 105, 220 n.6, 227
n.1
powder
made from mummies, 24
of projection, 62
symbol of, 182
prayer, 37
precipitation, 140–1, 145
pregnancy, 84, 134
Prelude to Chemistry, 63
pretiosissimum oleum, 181
principia, 55
principles, the three alchemical,
55, 63, 110
Prison House of the King, 167
projection, 61, 145
Psychology and Alchemy, 155–6
psychopomp, 154, 157
psychosis, 147, 153–67
purple, 119
see also lavender blossoms;
sulfur
putrefactio, 4, 69–95, 149
symbol of, 142
Pygmalion, 100
pyre, 141
Pythagoras, 42, 46–7
qualities of Greek elements, 60, 62,
110
qualitates, 60
quartz, 23
quaternion, 60
Queen, 151, 166–7
quicklime, see calcium oxide
quicksilver, see mercury
quintessence, 79, 83
herbal, 84
of mummies, 149
symbol of, 65, 79
rabbits’ skin, 20
rain, 49
rainbow, 82
raisins, 84
Ramanujan, see Aiyangar,
Srinivasa Ramanujan
raven, 141
Raw Sienna, 173, 195
Read, John, 63
Realgar, 19
rebis, 151–6
recipes, 121
for a silver tree, 222 n.17
for a solvent for gold, using
saliva, 151
for a vision of the heavens,
using using metal coin, 108
for edible gold, 116
for gold, using a slug, 68–9
for gold, using basilisks, 145–6