Aztecs 130–1, 136, 141–2, 268, 270
azurite 82, 196
B
Baeyer, Adolf von 192
Bahia emerald 220–1
Baker, Gene 118
Baker-Miller pink 117, 118–9
Bali 82
Bamiyan statues 182
Barzini, Luigi 148–9
Batchelor, David 40–1
Baum, L. Frank 220
Beardsley, Aubrey 64
Beechey, Sir William 254
beige 58–9, 110, 246
Berenson, Marisa 127
Berlin, Brent 34
Berny, Pierre de 200
birds 278–9
Biston betularia f. typica 275
bitumen 253
black 17, 19, 228, 261–81
Bloch-Bauer, Adele 86, 89
blonde 65, 67–8
blue 13, 115, 179–205, 228
blueprints 195
Boccumini, Paul 118
Boistard, Pascale 117
Boogert, A. 26
Borghese, Prince 148–9
Botticelli 88
Boucher, François 116
Boudicca 104
boys 115
Brant, Isabella 69
Brassaï 205
British Colour Council (BCC) 256–7
brown 21, 228, 237–57
Buddhism 100, 209
buff 239, 242–3
Burgess, Anthony 95
Burne-Jones, Edward 185, 255
Burton, Sarah 47–8
C
Caesar, Julius 162
Cambodia 80
Cambridge, Duchess of 48
camouflage 120–1, 239, 241
caracol 160
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi 238, 250, 251–2
Carl, Katharine Augusta 84
carrots 97
Cartailhac, Émile 274
Carthaginians 86
Casagemas, Carlos 204
Castiglione, Baldassare 262
Catholics 96, 131, 138, 139, 140, 142, 223
cave art 21, 228, 237, 250–1, 262, 274–5
celadon 232–3
Celts 181, 199
Cennini, Cennino 57, 82, 83, 88, 182, 183, 215, 228–9
Cerro Rico de Potosí 49, 51
cerulean 204–5
Cézanne, Paul 77, 174
chalk 56–7
charcoal 21, 262, 274–5
Charlemagne 139
Chaucer, Geoffrey 140
Chernobyl 201–2
China 30
blue 192
celadon 232–3
cosmetics 45, 109
ink 271–3
ivory 48
red 136, 142–3, 146–7, 150–1
white 41
yellow 65, 80, 82, 84–5
Christianity 33
black 261, 262, 269, 279, 280
blue 180
Eve 68
gold 87
illuminated manuscripts 23,
107–8, 146, 273
scarlet 140
Virgin Mary 68, 87, 115,
180, 181, 184–5
see also Catholics; Protestants
Christison, Dr. Robert 81
chrome yellow 76, 78–9, 94
Churchill, Winston 126, 279
Cixi, Empress Dowager 84
Cleopatra 99–100, 162
cobalt 180, 187–8, 204–5
Coca-Cola 137
coccolithophores 56
cochineal 136, 138,140, 141–3, 152–3, 193
Codex exoniensis 244
Colliss-Harvey, Jacky 104
color: artists 21–4
and culture 29–31
and language 33–5
mapping 26–7, 256–7
mixing 17–19
and vision 13–15
Constable, John 194
cosmetics 45–6, 109, 264–5
cosmic latte 58
Courrèges, André 49
Crayola 128
crocoite 78–9
Crocus sativus 98–9
Cromwell, Oliver 140, 247
Crowley, Aleister 140
cuttlefish 248
Cynips quercusfolii 272
D
Dactylopius coccus 141
Dalí, Salvador 77, 126
Dass, Angélica 111
de Wolfe, Elsie 58
death 172–3, 180, 261–2, 276–7, 280–1
Dee, Dr. John 261, 268–9
deer 244–5
Defoe, Daniel 57
Delacroix, Eugène 254
Democritus 210
Desmoulins, Camille 223
devil 213, 269
Dewhurst, Richard 71
Dickens, Charles 224
Diesbach, Johann Jacob 193
Dio Cassius 104
Diocletian 163–4
Dippel, Johann Konrad 193, 194
dragon’s blood 154–5
Drebbel, Cornelius 140
Drölling, Martin 254
Dryden, Helen 94
Dürer, Albrecht 184
d’Urfé, Honoré 232
Dutch orange 93–4, 96–7, 223
Duthé, Rosalie 67
E
Egypt: amber 102
black 261, 262, 280–1
blue 190, 196–7
brown 238
emeralds 220
green 209
hematite 135–6, 150, 151
ink 271
kohl 264–5
madder 152
mummies 135–6, 150, 253–5
silver 50
yellow 77, 82
Egyptian blue 21, 180, 183–4, 196–7
electric blue 201–3
Elizabeth I 54, 105, 139
Elizabeth II 171
Elizabeth of York 93
emerald 212–13, 220–1
emojis 74–5
Estienne, Henri 211
Etruscans 102
Eugénie, Empress 170
Eve 68
F
Fahlman, Scott E. 75
fallow 244–5
Federigo 165–6
Fellowes, Daisy 116, 126
Ferrari, Enzo 149
Field, George: chalk 56
cobalt 188
dragon’s blood 155
gamboge 80
Indian yellow 71
madder 153
minium 109
Naples yellow 76–7
Prussian blue 194
sepia 249
terre verte 227–8
umber 250
Finderlers, Jobst 100
Fini, Leonor 126
Finlay, Victoria 72–3
fluorescent pink 128–9
Ford, Henry 29
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré 116
France: absinthe 217–18, 219
blue 181, 192, 204
green 211, 223
madder 153
puce 122–3
yellow 63
François I 87, 253–4
Fuchs, Leonard 124–5
fuchsia 124–5
G
gamboge 64, 71, 80–1, 194
Garcinia trees 80
Gauguin, Paul 78, 95, 217
Geiger, Lazarus 33–4
gender 115–17
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 68, 127
Gérard, Balthasar 96
Germany: blue 200
ravens 278–9
ginger 104–6, 137
Giotto 69, 8
7
girls 115
Gladstone, William Ewart 33
Gladzor Gospels 107–8, 109
Gmelin, Christian 185
Godlove, Isaac H. 27
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 28
Goguryeo 43
gold 50, 86–9, 130, 142, 145, 146, 237
Golden Gate Bridge 94
Goswamy, B. N. 65
Greeks 21, 30, 33, 35, 42, 276
amber 102–3
blonde 67
brown 238
cosmetics 45, 109
green 210
hematite 151
night 280
saffron 98
green 13, 19, 209–33, 228
Greifswald 49–50
Grimes, William Francis 57
Guerrilla Girls 117
Guimet, Jean-Baptiste 185–6
Guyton de Morveau, Louis-Bernard 40
H
hair 65, 67–8, 104–6
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 136–7
heliotrope 172–3
Hellot, Jean 195
hematite 88, 136, 150–1, 228, 250
Henry VIII 87, 105
Hermès 94
Herschel, John 194–5
highlighter pens 128–9
Hinduism 204, 261, 280–1
Hippocrates 124
Hispaniola 125
Hogarth, William 194
Hooker, Sir Joseph 71–3
Hooker, William 81
Horace 160
Houbraken, Arnold 56
Hubbard, L. Ron 204
I
illness 64
illuminated manuscripts 23, 107–8, 146
imperial yellow 65, 84–5
impressionists 20, 78, 94–5, 174–5, 237
Inca 136, 141, 142
India: gamboge 80
gold 66
madder 152
pink 116
saffron 100
yellow 65, 71–3
Indian yellow 64, 71–3
indigo 167, 180–1, 189–92,193, 198, 200
ink 271–3
Innocent III 210
Iran 98
Iraq 98
Ireland 94, 222–3
Isabella, Archduchess 54–5
isabelline 54–5
Isatis tinctoria 198–9
Islam 33, 209, 213, 273
Ive, Jonathan 41
ivory 47–8
J
Jackson, Holbrook 64
Jacobi, Richard 70
Japan 30
blue 192, 194
gamboge 80
lead white 45
purple 160
white 41
Java 82
jeans 192
jet 276–7
Jews 65
Jobs, Steve 41–2
Johnson, Samuel 256, 257, 279
Jurassic Park 102
K
Kandinsky, Wassily 93, 94, 147, 213
Kapoor, Anish 137, 194
Kay, Paul 34
Keeler, Clyde 179
kelly green 222–3
Kentucky 52
Key, Adriaen Thomasz 96
khaki 239, 240–1
Khan, Naeem 110
Kipling, Rudyard 255
Klein, Calvin 41
Klein, Yves 186
Klimt, Gustav 86, 89
kohl 264–5
L
Lacaze-Duthiers, Henri de 164
Lacroix, Christian 127
lampblack 271–2
Langland, William 247
language 33–5, 116
lapis lazuli 182–4
Lascaux 228, 251
Le Corbusier 29–30, 41
Le Gallienne, Richard 63, 66
lead white 39–40, 43–6, 70, 108, 193, 215, 227
lead-tin yellow 44, 69–70
Leonardo da Vinci 146, 249,262–3
Levy, Adrian 103
Lewis Chessmen 47
lichens 161, 165–6
light: and black 261
blue 179
color mixing 17–9
visible spectrum 13, 14–5, 128
and vision 13–5, 39
Lippi, Filippino 184
London, Jack 65
Loos, Anita 68
Louboutin, Christian 111
Louis XVI 122–3
Lundquist, Oliver 204
M
Macmillan, Harold 243
madder 152–3, 192, 199–200, 246
Maerz, A. 246, 256–7
magenta 26, 135, 167–8
Magnan, Valentine 218
makeup 45–6, 109, 264–5
Malevich, Kazimir 41, 263
Manet, Édouard 175
maraschino cherries 131
Maria Theresa, Empress 122
Marie Antoinette 122–3
Marino Mannoia, Francesco
“Mozzarella” 251–2
Martial 248–9
Mary, Queen of Scots 138, 139
Mary, Virgin 68, 87, 115, 180, 181, 184–5
mauve 21, 152, 159, 161, 164, 167, 169–71, 172, 277
melanin 248, 278–9
Melville, Herman 29, 39
Mérimée, Jean François
Léonor 71
Mexico 130–1
Midas 88
Millais, Sir John Everett 105
Miller, Ron 118
Milton, John 68, 130
minium 94, 107–9
Miró, Joan 179
Mirzapur 72–3
Modigliani, Amedeo 105
moles 256–7
Monet, Claude 94, 174, 175,194
Monroe, Marilyn 68, 116, 127
Morris, William 185, 198
Morrow, Irving 94
Mountbatten, Lord 120–1
Mountbatten pink 120–1
mourning 172–3, 180, 276–7, 281
Mukharji, Trailokyanath 72–3
mummy 253–5
Munch, Edvard 30, 95
Munsell, Albert Henry 256
Murex brandaris 162, 163, 164, 165
Murray, Thomas 96
Musa 86–7
N
Naples yellow 64, 70, 76–7
Napoleon 224, 226
Nazis 67, 89, 101
Neri di Bicci 44
Nero 163, 220
Netherlands 93, 96–7
New York 97
Newton, Sir Isaac 16, 17, 19, 30, 268
Nicander 45
night 280
nude 110–1
O
oak tree 272
Obama, Michelle 110
Oberkirch, Baronne d’ 123
obsidian 261, 268–70
ocher 82, 94
Odin 278
Oenanthe isabellina 54
orange 13, 14, 19, 93–111, 223
Ordinaire, Pierre 217
orpiment 64, 82–3, 194, 227
Osiris 136, 150, 281
Owens, Mitchell 126
P
Palladio, Andrea 42
Pantone 26, 204, 209
Pastoureau, Michel 25
Patrick, St. 222–3
Paul II, Pope 139
Paul, M. Rea 246, 256–7
Payne, William 266–7
Payne’s gray 266–7
Peking-to-Paris race 148–9
penguins 55
peppered moths 275
Perkin, William 21, 152, 153, 161, 169–70
Perrin, Jean 81
Peru 137
Phaeton 103
Philip II 142
Philip the Good 263
Picasso, Pablo 194, 204, 205
pink 115–31
Pissarro, Camille 174, 237
pitch black 280–1
plague 52
Plato 210
Pliny the Elder 21, 124
bitumen 253
blue 180
cochineal 136, 138
dragon’s blood 154–5
gold 88–9
lead white 39, 43
madder 152
minium 109
orpiment 82
Tyrian purple 159, 160, 162
vermilion 145
Plumier, Père Charles 125
Poe, Edgar Allan 63, 217
Pompadour, Madame de 116
Pompeii 144, 152
Pozzo, Andrea 76
Pre-Raphaelites 105, 137
prisons 118–9
prostitutes 67, 136
Protestants 29, 94, 96–7, 223
Prussian blue 81, 193–5, 239
puce 122–3
punk 128
purgatives 81, 82
purple 19, 159–75
R
Rabbane, Paco 49
Radhakrishnan, Dr. S. 100
Raphael 215
rave culture 74–5
ravens 278–9
red 13, 14, 135–55, 228
redheads 104–6, 137
Rehmannia glutinosa 85
Reid, Jamie 128
Rembrandt 69, 81, 238, 251, 263
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste 20, 261
Reynolds, Sir Joshua 81, 266
Richard II 139
Roccella tinctoria 161, 165
Rodin, Auguste 42
Roger, Neil Munro 171
Romans 30, 42
amber 102
blonde 67
blue 179–80
brown 238
Egyptian blue 196–7
emerald 220
indigo 191
jet 276
orpiment 82
purple 160, 162–4
red 135, 136, 140
sepia 248–9
vermilion 144–5
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 105,185
rosso corsa 148–9
Rothko, Mark 137
Rubens, Peter Paul 69, 147
Rumphius, Georg Eberhard 82–3
Ruskin, John 32, 279
russet 31, 239, 246–7
S
saffron 78, 98–100
Sano di Pietro 185
Santa Barbara 230
Sarto, Andrea del 185
Sassoferrato, Giovanni Battista Salvi da 185
scarlet 31, 138–40, 199, 239, 246, 263
Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne) 136–7
Schauss, Alexander G. 118–9
Scheele, Carl Wilhelm 211–2, 224, 225–6
Scheele’s green 211–2, 224–6
Schiaparelli, Elsa 116, 126–7
Schlüter, Andreas 101
Schulz, Gottfried 146
Scientology 204
Scott-Clark, Cathy 103
sepia 248–9
Seurat, Georges 212
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