For the show, each planet has a unique video that employs analog and digital processes: charcoal animation for Mercury, volumetric pigments in water for Jupiter, thousands of images from the NASA Cassini mission for Saturn.

WSJ: Three Brooklyn Stars Align at BAM

Leather bookbindings, pigments for paints and majolica (white-glazed pottery) all came from the East, although the Venetians never succeeded in imitating the perfect ruby glaze of Iznik pottery.

ECONOMIST: Venice and the East

Industrial customers for its plastics, paints and pigments were shrinking or going bust.

ECONOMIST: John Harvey-Jones

Perhaps an itinerant artist-for-hire, Scott mixed walnut or linseed oil and pigments to paint multiple mediums, including stagecoaches and a landscape dated to 1843 which hangs in a neighboring North Carolina county, all incorporating techniques similar to those on display in the Carolina Room.

FORBES: The Work of Undoing the Past

The outside dimensions of the theatre were extrapolated from one of the panoramas, the height and stage layout from the contract for the later Fortune theatre, decoration from the latest research on Elizabethan pigments and taste.

ECONOMIST: SHAKESPEARE��S PLAYHOUSE