From the vantage point of the Renaissance, blue was the color of the future. Infrequent in Ancient and early Medieval art, blue, between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, slowly became more prominent in European material culture, eventually emerging as Europe’s favorite color by the eighteenth century, according to French historian Michel Pastoureau.¹ During this transition, and particularly between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, blue’s semiotic value was in flux. In the late Middle Ages, for example, theologians associated blue with the Virgin Mary. By the seventeenth century, “chromophobic” Protestants, who connected rich and vibrant colors to Catholicism’s excesses, accepted blue
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