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Author Finlay, Victoria, author.

Title The brilliant history of color in art / Victoria Finlay.

Publication Info. Los Angeles, California : The J. Paul Getty Museum, [2014]
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  701.8509 FIN    DUE 05-09-24
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Description 120 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents 1. Earth and fire. Manganese black ; Red ocher ; Egyptian blue ; Greekwhite ; 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 ; Indianyellow ; 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.
Subject Color in art -- History.
Art -- Technique -- History.
Colors -- Analysis.
Genre History.
Added Author J. Paul Getty Museum.
Added Title History of color in art
ISBN 9781606064290 (hardcover)
1606064290 (hardcover)
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