To
tell the truth, the Solfatara has also been the “quarry of all colours”, in
that it supplied colours for the Neapolitan paintings of the sixteenth century.
In fact, ceruse,
lead, sulphor, ferruginous vitrol, cinabro and realgar, were “extracted”, washed, cooked, grinded and transformed into the greys, yellows, greens and reds to be used as paint for the sixteenth century Neapolitan paintings.
Forum Vulcani now called Solfatara-F.Villamena-XV11 century