Color.

Victoria Finlay

Random House, 12/03. A Natural History of the Palette. Item #21933
ISBN: 0812971426

From the publisher:

Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors.

• 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.

448 pages, paperback, Random House (December 2003)

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Price: $18.00