Book Description
Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors.
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 Continue
Book Details
- English Books
- Paperback 464 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 0812971426
- ISBN-13: 9780812971422
- Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Pub date: Dec 30, 2003
- Dimensions: 21 cm x 14 cm x 3 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover
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