Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Victoria Finlay

463 pages • first pub 2003 (editions) user-added

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 h...

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