Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Victoria Finlay

464 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction art history science informative reflective slow-paced
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Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors.For example: Cleopatra used saffron—a source of the color yellow—for seduction. Extracted from an Afghan mine, the blue “ultramarine” paint used by Michelangelo was so expensive he ...

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