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how much lead was in their paints which absorbed into skin and mouth when they would whet their brush with saliva?
by samstave 4y ago
how much lead was in their paints which absorbed into skin and mouth when they would whet their brush with saliva?
- MengerSponge 4y agoNot just lead! Cadmium (yellow) and arsenic (green) feature prominently too
- kergonath 4y agoThat’s not really a good hypothesis. Lead was not invented by the impressionists. Why would they be the first? You’d expect some kind of correlation; lead has been widely used since ancient times. How is this any better that pollution, which is known and documented?
- fsckboy 4y agoi think you're actually referencing the Radium Girls, the radioactive flourescence illuminated watchface dial painters https://www.cnn.com/style/article/radium-girls-radioactive-paint/index.html https://www.cnn.com/style/article/radium-girls-radioactive-p...
- sidewndr46 4y agoThere is plenty of paint that was lead based throughout history. But as some other posters mentioned lead has been used in human history for thousands of years.
- fsckboy 4y agolead has been bad for people for thousands of years; one of the problems with heavy metal poisoning is that it's cumulative, it's not eliminated and the concentration in an individual will keep increasing. but I was referring to the "paintbrush in mouth" aspect.