Rosso. Storia di un colore

3.5 stars Michel Pastoureau has written about different colors, being an expert on and showing enthusiasm for art history and in particular colors, symbology, and heraldry. We see a great effort with this book and it covers a lot of ground, but I was still left with a lot of questions. I can understa Leggi tutto

This is a beautiful book filled with copious illustrations. I highly recommend it. My only quibble: it's very Western Europe focused. It pretty much ignores the Byzantine empire and anything to the east of Byzantium.

La presenza del rosso nella cultura europea, tra lingua, arte, scienza, pigmenti, moda, religione, politica, vita quotidiana ecc. La storia di un re spodestato, per certi versi: costretto a deporre la corona e a darsi alla rivoluzione. Storia avvincente — anche solo per il capitolo Ai limiti del rosso Leggi tutto

Читала я эту книгу по учёбе, но might as well. Неплохой обзор истории цвета. В паре мест автор себе противоречит, но это и понятно в таком непростом вопросе, просто хотелось, чтобы это было как-то отмечено или выделено. Хороший список литературы в сносках и в библиографии. Пожалуй, я бы порекомендов Leggi tutto

A well-documented and concise history of the use and customs around the color red in the western world, from prehistory to modern times. The author has also written such books on the colors blue, green and black and intends on writing one on the color yellow. Even though the cultural scope is mostly Leggi tutto

A welcome gift and gorgeous looking book which is ironically rather difficult to read - large print and very shiny paper can be an optically confusing combination. It hovers between the academic and the coffee table genres, containing [often conflicting] facts, history and much about the church, freq Leggi tutto

3,5