Color A Natural History of the Palette

Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors. For example: Cleopatra used saffrona source of the color yellowfor 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 redstill found in lipsticks and Cherry Coke todayhas come from the blood of insects.

A British citizen living in Hong Kong, Victoria Finlay has worked for Reuters and was the arts editor for the South China Morning Post for four and a half years before leaving to write this book. She writes regularly about arts and travel for Hong Kong newspapers and international media. From the Hardcover edition.

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Color A Natural History of the Palette

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