Blue: The History of a Color

The History of the Color Blue: From Disdain to Triumph
The history of color is, above all, the brightly decorated history of humanity, and Pastoureau's works are a chronological palette of cultural development from manuscripts, stained glass and heraldry to clothing, painting and popular culture.

Why did the ancient Greeks consider blue ugly and barbaric? How did it become the personification of the Virgin Mary and a powerful element of church decoration? How did blue manage to overcome the path from the personification of military-political forces during the French Revolution to the romantic era of the blues and modernity?

Michel Pastoureau considers history as the color palette of a master artist - through the Neolithic era and up to the triumph of modernity, when military clothing gave way to everyday classic jeans, and blue became the personification of our planet and the technological future.