Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by function]
6. colorant (material)
7. pigments
8. [pigment by color]
9. white pigment
10. opaque white pigment

Narrower term/s

• Dutch process white lead

Anotations

Scope note:

Synthetically produced white pigment; the oldest and most historically important white pigment as it was the only white used in European easel painting until the nineteenth century. By the twentieth century, the use of lead white had been replaced with titanium dioxide.