Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color by David Coles

Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color

David Coles

240 pages hardcover 2019

4 editions

nonfiction art history challenging informative slow-paced
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Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic color and used it to create the famous blue crown of Queen Nefertiti? Or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? In the Roman Empire, hundreds of thousands of snails had...

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