The brilliant history of color in art / Victoria Finlay.
"Journey from the Ice Age to the Digital Age with a surprising cast of characters on this worldwide tour of color in art. Students will discover the strange, intriguing, and humorous stories of their favorite colors, the science behind them, and how they forever changed the courses of art and h...
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Los Angeles :
J. Paul Getty Museum,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Earth and fire. Manganese black ; Red ocher ; Egyptian blue ; Greek White ; Yellow ocher
- 2. Rocks, minerals, twigs, and bugs. Tyrian purple ; Cinnabar, vermilion, and minium ; Black ink ; Gold ; Green earth ; The age of canvas ; Ultramarine ; Cochineal ; Logwood black ; Cobalt ; Lead white ; Indigo ; Gainsborough blue ; Rose ; Light ; Titian blue ; Indian yellow ; Madder red ; Graphite ; Mummy brown
- 3. Modern colors. Mauve ; Prussian blue ; Emerald green ; Black and white and sepia ; Manganese violet ; Chrome yellow ; Patent blue, tartrazine, and rose bengal ; Cadmium yellow ; Lithol red ; International klein blue ; Orange 36 and violet 19 ; Painting with light.