Blue: The History of a Color

Abstract

INTRODUCTION Color is Not Black and White 7 1. AN UNCOMMON COLOR Prehistory to the Twelfth Century 13 2. A NEW COLOR The Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century 49 3. A MORAL COLOR The Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century 85 4. THE FAVORITE COLOR The Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century 123 5. BLUE TODAY 179 Notes 182 Bibliography 206 Index 213 Photography Credits 216

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