Ancient Color

Ancient Color

Creating Using Investigating

Bibliography

General

  • An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour: The Harvard Art Museums’ Forbes Pigment Collection. Los Angeles: Atelier Editions, 2018.
  • Finlay, Victoria. Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002.
  • St. Clair, Kassia. The Secret Lives of Color. New York: Penguin Books, 2017.

Creating Color

  • Arnaud, P. 2005. Les routes de la navigation antique: itinéraires en Méditerranée. Paris: Editions Errance, 7 - 13.
  • Cardon, Dominique. Natural Dyes: Sources, Tradition, Technology and Science. London: Archetype, 2007.
  • Charlesworth, Martin Percival. Trade-Routes and Commerce of the Roman Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1961.
  • Delamare, François, and Bernard Guineau. Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments. New York: H. N. Abrams, 2000.
  • Dubois, Charles. Pouzzoles antique (histoire et topographie). Paris: A. Fontemoing, 1907, esp. pp. 127–29.
  • Errington, Benjamin, Glen Lawson, Simon Lewis, and Gregory D. Smith. “Micronised Egyptian Blue Pigment: A Novel Near-Infrared Luminescent Fingerprint Dusting Powder.” Dyes and Pigments 132 (2016): 310–15.
  • Forbes, Robert J. Studies in Ancient Technology. 2nd ed. 3 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1965, esp. vol. 3, pp. 211–36.
  • Gettens, Rutherford John, and George Leslie Stout. Painting Materials: A Short Encyclopedia. New York: Dover, 1942, esp. pp. 91–181.
  • Giachi, Gianna, E. De Carolis, and Pasquino Pallecchi. “Raw Materials in Pompeian Paintings: Characterization of Some Colors from the Archaeological Site.” Materials and Manufacturing Processes 24, no. 9 (2009): 1015–22.
  • Hatton, Gareth D., Andrew J. Shortland, and Michael S. Tite. “The Production Technology of Egyptian Blue and Green Frits from Second Millennium BC Egypt and Mesopotamia.” Journal of Archaeological Science 35, no. 6 (2008): 1591–1604.
  • Kakoulli, Ioanna. Greek Painting Techniques and Materials from the Fourth to the First Century BC. London: Archetype, 2009.
  • Lee, Lorna, and Stephen Quirke. “Painting Materials.” In Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, edited by Paul T. Nicholson and Ian Shaw, pp. 104–20. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • Lucas, Alfred. Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries. London: Arnold, 1926, esp. pp. 282–95.
  • Mazzocchin, Gian-Antonio, Alvise Vianello, Silvia Minghelli, and Danilo Rudello. “Analysis of Roman Wall Paintings from the Thermae of 'Iulia Concordia’.” Archaeometry 52, no. 4 (2010): 644–55.
  • Neiman, Madeleine Kegelman, Magdalena Balonis, and Ioanna Kakoulli. “Cinnabar Alteration in Archaeological Wall Paintings: An Experimental and Theoretical Approach.” Applied Physics A 121, no. 3 (2015): 915–38.
  • Oleson, John Peter. Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, esp. pp. 94–120, 465–82.
  • Østergaard, Jan Stubbe and Anne Marie Nielsen, eds. Transformations: Classical Sculpture in Colour. Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2014.
  • Picollo, Marcello, Mauro Bacci, Andrea Casini, Franco Lotti, Simone Porcinai, Bruno Radicati, and Lorenzo Stefani. “Fiber Optics Reflectance Spectroscopy: A Non-Destructive Technique for the Analysis of Works of Art.” In Optical Sensors and Microsystems: New Concepts, Materials, Technologies, edited by Sergio Martellucci, Arthur N. Chester, and Anna Grazia Mignani, pp. 259–65. New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
  • Pliny the Elder. The Natural History. Translated by John Bostock and H. T. Riley. London: George Bell & Sons, 1893.
  • Pradell, Trinitat, Nativitat Salvado, Gareth D. Hatton, and Michael S. Tite. “Physical Processes Involved in Production of the Ancient Pigment, Egyptian Blue.” Journal of the American Ceramic Society 89, no. 4 (2006): 1426–31.
  • Schäffer, Christopher, ed. Connecting the Ancient World: Mediterranean Shipping, Maritime Networks and their Impact. Rahden/Westf.: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2016.
  • Scott, David A. “A Review of Ancient Egyptian Pigments and Cosmetics.” Studies in Conservation 61, no. 4 (2016): 185–202.
  • Svoboda, Marie, and Marc Walton. “Material Investigations of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Red-Shroud Mummy.” In Decorated Surfaces on Ancient Egyptian Objects: Technology, Deterioration, and Conservation, edited by Julie Wright Dawson, Christina Rozeik, Margot M. Wright, and Lisa Bruno, pp. 148–55. London: Archetype, 2010.
  • Theophrastus. De Lapidibus. Translated by D. E. Eichholz. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965.
  • Vitruvius. On Architecture. Translated by Richard V. Schofield. London: Penguin Books, 2009, esp. pp. 209–17.

Using Color

  • Aristotle. On Colours. In Minor Works. Translated by W. S. Hett. Loeb Classical Library 307. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936.
  • Ball, Philip. Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.
  • Bradley, Mark. Colour and Meaning in Ancient Rome. Cambridge Classical Studies; Variation: Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  • Brinkmann, Vinzenz, Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, and Renée Dreyfus, eds. Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2017.
  • Eastaugh, Nicholas. The Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary of Historical Pigments. Amsterdam and Boston: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004.
  • Edmondson, J. C., and Keith Alison. Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
  • Gage, John. Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1993.
  • Goldman, Rachael. “Plautus’ and Terence’s Colorful Pimps and Slaves.” In Essays in Global Color History: Interpreting the Ancient Spectrum, edited by Rachael Goldman, pp. 163–74. Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity 19. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2016.
  • Østergaard, Jan Stubbe, and Anne Marie Nielsen, eds. Transformations: Classical Sculpture in Colour. Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2014.
  • Pastoureau, Michel. Black: The History of a Color. Translated by Jody Gladding. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
  • Pastoureau, Michel. Blue: The History of a Color. Translated by Jody Gladding. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
  • Pastoureau, Michel. Green: The History of a Color. Translated by Jody Gladding. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
  • Pastoureau, Michel. Red: The History of a Color. Translated by Jody Gladding. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017.
  • Pliny the Elder. Book 35 of Natural History IX, Libri 33–35. Translated by Harris Rackham. Loeb Classical Library 394. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952.
  • Reinhold, Meyer. History of Purple as a Status Symbol in Antiquity. Collection Latomus 116. Brussels: Latomus, 1970.
  • Reitzenstein, Denise. “Colors and Clothing in Artemidoros’ Dream Visions.” In Essays in Global Color History: Interpreting the Ancient Spectrum, edited by Rachael Goldman, pp. 175–89. Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity 19. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2016.
  • Seneca. Book 1.3–15 of Natural Questions, Volume I: Books 1–3. Translated by Thomas H. Corcoran. Loeb Classical Library 450. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.
  • Stager, Jennifer M. S. “The Materiality of Color in Ancient Mediterranean Art.” In Essays in Global Color History: Interpreting the Ancient Spectrum, edited by Rachael Goldman, pp. 97–120. Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity 19. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2016.
  • Vitruvius. Book 7 of On Architecture, Vol. II: Books 6–10. Translated by F. S. Granger. Loeb Classical Library 280. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934.
  • Wierzbicka, Anna. “The Meaning of Color Terms: Semantics, Culture, and Cognition.” Cognitive Linguistics 1, no. 1 (1990): 99–150.

Investigating Color