Product Description: A 16th century scholar Antonio Telesio probes ancient colour words and ideas, and foreshadows future trends. He lived at a time when he could discuss colour with Raphael, Leonardo and Titian. Although writing for his classics students, his chapters on the main twelve colours, might equally well have been placed around a renaissance palette...read more

Product Description: Colour expression and patterns of thought about colour over history, from the dynamics of the classical palette of earths to the lost tradition of the great Venetians, and the power of colour as a cultural instrument.