The best ones, he wrote, "achieved a fidelity and restraint that most current colour-photography printers have yet to match – notably in flesh tints and in the rendering of patina and the soft tones of town buildings and streets".
Likewise Rembrandt will take the flesh tints on an ageing face and show how each one captures something of the life within, so that the formal harmony of the colours conveys the completeness and unity of the person.
Evans photographed Greenaway's drawings to wood, engraved in facsimile, and created colour blocks of red, blue, yellow and flesh tint.
The luminous pinkish tones of female and infant flesh were composed of lead white, lightly tinted with vermilion and red earths in shadow areas.
If the meat in a purist pastor is still the color of flesh, charred in parts, the meat in a red pastor is fully tinted by the achiote, the reddest of adobos.
He needs no caricaturist to make him look evil, though tinting his flesh (green on a recent cover of The Economist, red and yellow on the latest Newsweek) augments his scariness nicely.
"His eyes, meanwhile, are closed with flesh-tinted eye caps and eye cement".
He is credited with important innovations, among them flying dancers via a wiring system, and with major changes in costume (supposedly introducing flesh-tinted tights for ballerinas).
It wasn't until he developed a meticulous skin regimen, including the application of flesh-tinted zinc SPF 20 cream, that his nose went from ruddy to inconspicuous.
Those enshrined in French homes, or on prayer-cards stuffed into the missals of elderly churchgoers, are usually St Anthony carrying the child Jesus, or smiling St Thérèse of Lisieux with a bouquet of flesh-tinted roses.
