Yellow : the history of a color

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"Illuminated with a wide variety of images, this book traces the long history of yellow around the world. In antiquity, yellow was considered a sacred color, a symbol of light, warmth, wealth, and prosperity. But in medieval Europe, it became highly ambivalent: greenish yellow came to signify d...

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Main Author: Pastoureau, Michel, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Yellow.
Color > Psychological aspects > History.
Color > Social aspects > History.
Symbolism of colors > History.
Yellow in art.
ART / History / General
Psychology.
Color > Psychological aspects
Color > Social aspects
Symbolism of colors
Yellow
Yellow in art
Farbenlehre
Farbensymbolik
Gelb
Adage.
Adjective.
Athanasius Kircher.
Beige.
Bible Historiale.
Blond.
Cagot.
Caravaggio.
Chivalric romance.
Church Fathers.
Classical Latin.
Clothing.
Coat of arms.
Courtly love.
Cubism.
Degenerate art.
Demagogue.
Dionysus.
Dyeing.
Egyptomania.
Etymology.
Eurystheus.
Facsimile.
Fauvism.
Gold leaf.
Grandes Chroniques de France.
Grisaille.
Hebrews.
Heraldry.
Iconography.
Impressionism.
Iseult.
Jan Hus.
Jan Steen.
Jean Chardin.
Lacquer.
Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Medieval Latin.
Middle French.
Naples yellow.
Nibelungenlied.
Ochre.
On the Eve.
Orpiment.
Paul Gauguin.
Paul Klee.
Philip II of Macedon.
Pigment.
Pope Innocent III.
Prostitution.
Red hair.
Rococo.
Roman Empire.
Roman de Fauvel.
Roman sculpture.
Silver age.
Simon Vouet.
Sumptuary law.
Superiority (short story).
Talc.
The Other Hand.
The Philosopher.
The Tables of the Law.
The Various.
Trickster.
Urine.
Victor Hugo.
Vinegar.
Yellow Peril.
Yellow journalism.
History
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