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[danielam]

There's a mention of Mexican cochineal, but nothing about what it supplanted in Europe, the Polish cochineal, which was traded widely in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_cochineal

I also found this bit from the MET:

https://issuu.com/metmuseum/docs/cochineal_winter_2010_bulle...

[analog31 → danielam]

I don't remember the source, but apparently one of the many analyses of Stradivarius violins concluded that one of his red pigments was from the Americas.