Michel Pastoureau's new book tackles the complicated history of the color red, from regal hue of kings to scandalous shade of harlots. Pages from Red: The History of a Color (photo of the book for ...

"The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of privilege in the Western world. For many ...

On White: The History of a Color, by Michel Pastoureau, translated by Jody Gladding. Within contemporary parlance, there are few greater insults than “white.” It is generally given to denote bland ...

"Green," by French art historian Michel Pastoureau, is the best holiday gift of the year. (Courtesy Princeton University Press) There's an art book out there for everyone. A beautiful book is still ...

Insect Artifice is divided into two parts: one consisting of an intellectual biography of Joris Hoefnagel, and another, which analyzes Hoefnagel’s seminal work Four Elements, a compendium of the known ...