The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting

Revealing the power of color as physical medium, a key to interpretation, and a mediator of social and political change

“This excellently illustrated volume . . . will serve as a comprehensive survey on color in Western painting from the fifteenth century to the age of Modernism.”—Andrew Shea, New Criterion

This expansive study of color illuminates the substance, context, and meaning of five centuries of European painting. Between the mid—15th and the mid—19th centuries, the materials of pai...