Giulia Simonini: Color Charts in 18th-century Europe, Gebunden

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This book examines the phenomenon of color
charts that were created, developed, and sometimes
published in 18th-century Europe. In this work,
for the first time, color order systems, painters'
and dyers' sample books and the tables of natural
historians are all considered as color charts. The
book offers a historiographical categorization of
the charts into natural, pigmentary, and
trichromatic color charts and then scrutinizes and
explains what their differences are based on and
what factors are responsible for their
similarities. For this purpose, this work brings
to light, compares, and analyzes numerous primary
sources and colorful illustrations.