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The power of color : five centuries of European painting

by Marcia B. Hall

This study explores the history of colour across five centuries of European painting, examining the artistic, cultural and political significance of painters' techniques.

Accession 14767 ISBN 9780300237191 Publisher Yale University Press
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Revealing the power of color as physical medium, a key to interpretation, and a mediator of social and political change, this expansive study of color illuminates the substance, context, and meaning of five centuries of European painting [15th-19th centuries]. -- blurb

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