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Today we are going to talk about the pink hues in mural paintings from @pompeii_sites. As we will see, their chemical characteristics make it difficult to be analysed in-situ. To overcome this, the pigments conserved at the Applied Research Laboratory have been of great help. 
This pink tone is to be found in certain examples at the Archaeological Park, frequently associated to the depiction of Venus, as in this painting of the House of the Venus in the Shell (Regio II, 3, 3).
In some cases, the pinkish hue is less astounding and often mixed with other tones, as in the grey elephants that are accompanying the goddess in this example of the Shop of Verecundus (Regio IX, 7, 6).
