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The Half-Life of Blue (2020)

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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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Authors & Contributors
Christy Anderson
Anne Dunlop
Lederer, Roger J.
Lucy Wrapson
Schettino, Vincenzo
Rossi, Maria Stella
Concepts
Painters and painting
Science and art
Visual representation; visual communication
Color
Scientific illustration
Material culture
Time Periods
Early modern
Renaissance
Medieval
18th century
17th century
16th century
Places
Europe
Spain
Brittany (France)
Padua (Italy)
Atlantic Ocean
Netherlands
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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