Color: A Natural History of the Palette
- Pages
- 464
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812971422
- Reading Time
- ~8h 7min
Color: A Natural History of the Palette is a book by Victoria Finlay. It has 464 pages.
About this book
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 couldn’t afford to buy it himself. Since ancient times, carmine red—still found in lipsticks and Cherry Coke today—has come from the blood of insects.
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette has 464 pages.
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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 couldn’t afford to buy it himself. Since ancient time...
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Color: A Natural History of the Palette was written by Victoria Finlay.