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.
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Art -- Technique -- History.
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Colors -- Analysis.
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Genre |
History.
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Added Author |
J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Added Title |
History of color in art |
ISBN |
9781606064290 (hardcover) |
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1606064290 (hardcover) |
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