Yellow. The history of the color

The artistically framed and historically proven odyssey of the yellow color by the French medievalist Michel Pasturo describes the thorny path that all shades of yellow managed to overcome in order to fill the human world. From the first body drawings of the warm color of ocher to a modest place in the everyday life of Europe at the turn of the 19th century and a colorless existence in modern times. Traveling through Europe, East Asia, India, Africa and South America, yellow became a part of art, religion, fashion, literature and science and at the same time remained the least recognized. Modern Europe does not attach special importance to it, but this was not always the case. The entire spectrum of its shades - from light and warm to dark and sulfurous - harmoniously fits into the history of mankind. The sacred symbolism of antiquity and the demonic shade of counterfeiters, knights, Judas and Lucifer. The imperial color of Ancient China and the Indian symbol of happiness. Yellow is everywhere, and Pasturo illuminates the richness of its captivating imagery with the skill of an artist.