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-They say that we dream -in black and white. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
-Is that also -the way we see the past? | 0:00:15 | 0:00:19 | |
-My name is Sara -and I work here at St Fagans. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
-Before I came here, I saw the past -as a fairly colourless place. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:31 | |
-There was yellow, -brown, grey and vellum. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
-Gradually I'm learning that -the past is a very colourful place. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:38 | |
-In my world, -colour appeared in Wales... | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
-..around the same time as Sunlight -soap adverts and Cymru'r Plant. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:47 | |
-It was a shock to discover -the bright and vivid decorations... | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
-..used in churches and homes -hundreds of years ago. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:56 | |
-In the Middle Ages, colourful -churches like St Teilo's... | 0:00:56 | 0:01:00 | |
-..were to be found -the length and breadth of Wales. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
-To the people of the time, there was -nothing more colourful than nature. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:08 | |
-For artists of the time, nature -was the source of their paint. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:12 | |
-To decorate buildings like this... | 0:01:12 | 0:01:15 | |
-..they made red, -yellow and green pigments... | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
-..from common minerals -such as iron, lead and copper. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:22 | |
-But one colour in the palette of the -period was much harder to create. | 0:01:23 | 0:01:27 | |
-St Teilo's church -mainly dates back to Tudor times. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:34 | |
-The most valuable pigment at -that time was lapis lazuli - blue. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:39 | |
-It was more scarce -and more precious than gold. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
-The reason is that it was only found -in places such as Afghanistan. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
-It had to be brought -from Afghanistan... | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
-..to Loughor and Pontarddulais -where this church was built. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:54 | |
-Then it was turned into paint. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:57 | |
-After going to such trouble... | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
-..the paint was reserved for -the church's most precious pieces. | 0:01:59 | 0:02:03 | |
-At that time, -it would have been Mary. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
-You would have found a sculpture -like this in every parish in Wales. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:10 | |
-But during the Protestant -Reformation, most were destroyed. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:15 | |
-Over the last few decades, we have -learnt which pigments people used... | 0:02:17 | 0:02:23 | |
-..and how they made paint with them. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
-We're going to use an egg yolk -and mix it with lapis lazuli. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:34 | |
-I need to add water to the yolk -to create a more elastic paint. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:40 | |
-I'll just mix it quickly. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:43 | |
-I'll take some pigment and arrange -it as if we were making bread... | 0:02:44 | 0:02:50 | |
-..with a hole in the centre. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
-The way we mix paint is to press the -pigment between two layers of glass. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:58 | |
-As you can see, -the paint is a really bright colour. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:08 | |
-Compared to the dull, dark, earthy -colours of red, yellow and brown... | 0:03:08 | 0:03:13 | |
-..this would have been stunning -to look at during the Middle Ages. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
-Tudor lapis lazuli paint. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
-S4C Subtitles by Testun Cyf. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:25 | |
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