An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour. A gorgeous coffee table book that celebrates over 2500 pigments of colour. The Straus Center for Conservation & Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museum encompasses over 2,500 of the world’s rarest pigments. Visually excavating the extraordinary collection, An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour examines these beautiful pigments & artefacts (provenance, composition, symbology & application). It explores the larger related fields of chromatics, the historical narratives of art & the innovations with which express our aesthetic & creative self. Incredible.
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