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Color : A Natural History of the Palette by Finlay, Victoria is a art available to read on EtoBox.
What is Color : A Natural History of the Palette about?
Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors.<br> For example: Cleopatra used saffron—a source of the color yellow—for 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 red—still found in lipsticks and Cherry Coke today—has come from the blood of insects.
Who reads Color : A Natural History of the Palette?
It is typically read by collectors seeking rare, out-of-print or specialist editions.
Common subject areas: rare and out-of-print works.
- Author
- Finlay, Victoria
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307430830
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Fiction, Reference, Physics
- Rating
- 3.76 / 5 (46,569 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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