Manganese black: Art in the Ice Age
Red ocher: The sacred and dangerous in Australia
Egyptian blue: King Tut's infrared transmitter
Greek white: The myth of the white city
Yellow ocher: Apelles and slime
Tyrian purple: Cleopatra's royal color
Cinnabar, vermilion, and minium: Beautiful but deadly
Black ink: Who needs color anyway?
Green earth: Unearthly undertones
The age of canvas: Painting on sails
Ultramarine: From the Valley of the Stone
Cochineal: A new world color in art (and your lunch)
Logwood black: Puritans and pirates
Cobalt: Blue at the scene of the crime
Lead white: The enchantress
Indigo: Girl power in South Carolina
Gainsborough blue: Never use blue in the center
Rose: Madame Pompadour's luxurious pink
Light: And the Age of Enlightenment
Titian blue: Simply unbelievable
Indian yellow: Turner, cows, and mangoes
Madder red: Inventing the color wheel
Graphite: Pencil lead is not lead
Mummy brown: Funeral for pharaohs
Mauve: Chemistry project gone wrong
Prussian blue: The blue that was supposed to be red
Emerald green: The mystery of the poisonous wallpaper
Black and white and sepia: What you can't see in photographs
Manganese violet: Monet goes outside
Chrome yellow: Color from Siberia
Patent blue, tartrazine, and rose Bengal: Mix with potatoes for delicious color
Cadmium yellow: Listening to colors with Kandinsky
Lithol red: Endless journey of the eye
International Klein blue: This is not your blue
Orange 36 and violet 19: Lichtenstein and the rise of the superheroes
Painting with light: Pixels as pigment.