Sex Pistols 128
sexuality 136–7
Shakespeare, William 139, 140, 220, 244
shellfish 160, 162–3, 164, 248
shocking pink 116, 126–7
Siddal, Elizabeth 105
El Sidrón cave 106
Signac, Paul 205
silver 49–51, 142
smileys 74–5
South Africa 93–4
Spain: amaranth 130–1
cochineal 142–3
indigo 192
scarlet 139
silver 50–1
spectrum 13, 14–5, 30, 128
Spencer, Lady 123
Stabiae 228
Stalin, Joseph 266
Starbucks 143
Stewart, Dodai 110, 111
Suger, Abbot 180
Switzerland: absinthe 218–9
T
taupe 256–7
terre verte 211, 212, 227–9
Thénard, Louis-Jacques 188
Theophilus 145–6, 272
Theophrastus 124
Thias haemastoma 162, 163
Thiery de Menonville, Nicolas-Joseph 143
Tintoretto 69, 215
Titian 69, 105, 184
Töllner, Hans 214
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de 95
Travilla, William 127
Tsarskoye Selo 101
Tuareg 191
Turkey red 153
Turner, J. M. W. 12, 81, 224
Tutankhamen 82, 152, 190
Twain, Mark 52–3
Tyrian purple 139, 159–60, 162–4, 192
U
Uffington White Horse 57
Ulpian 159
ultramarine 23, 146, 180–1, 182–6, 188, 193, 197, 227, 237
umber 238, 250–2
uniforms 139–40, 167, 181, 192, 239, 240–1, 242–3
Union-Castle 120–1
United Nations 204
United States: amaranth 131
avocados 231
buff 242–3
environmental protection 230
ivory 48
New York 97
St. Patrick’s Day 222
Unverdorben, Otto 167
urine 71–3, 162, 166
V
van Dyck, Anthony 239
van Eyck, Jan 210, 214
van Gogh, Vincent 30, 63, 78, 79, 95, 194, 205, 217
van Hoogstraten, Samuel 211
van Meegeren, Han 187–8
Vantablack 261
Vauquelin, Nicolas Louis 79
verdigris 44, 210, 212, 214–6, 227
Verguin, François-Emmanuel 167, 168
Vermeer, Johannes 187–8
vermilion 108, 109, 144–7
Vernatti, Sir Philibert 44–5
Veronese, Paolo 83, 212, 215–6
Victoria, Queen 47, 170, 277
Victorians: electric blue 202
heliotrope 172, 173
mourning 172–3, 276–7
violet 174–5, 202
Virgin 137
Virgin Mary 68, 87, 115, 180, 181, 185
vision 13–5
Vitruvius 144
Vogue 95
Vreeland, Diana 116
W
Wah 150
Walker, Alice 159
Walpole, Sir Horace 169, 268
Washington, George 242–3
wedding dresses 41, 47–8
werewolves 49–50
Whitby 276, 277
white 17, 21, 39–59, 228, 261
whitewash 41, 52–3
Wilde, Oscar 63, 64, 170, 173, 217
William I, Prince of Orange 96–7
Winsor & Newton 40, 80, 81
witchcraft 262, 268–70
woad 189, 198–200, 211, 246
Wolfram, Gottfried 101
Wolsey, Cardinal 100
Woodwood, John 194
Wreschner, Ernst E. 150
Wright, Joseph 251
X
X-Ray Spex 128
Xenophon 45
Xu Yin 233
Y
yellow 13, 14, 63–89, 228
Yoon, JeongMee 115
Yuvchenko, Alexander 201
Z
Zachary, Pope 279
Zingiber officinale 104
Zoroastrianism 100
Zosimus of Panopolis 145
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