Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour | A Gallery from Nights | RNZ National

Some of the art and artists mentioned in the lecture Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour by Dr Philip Ball.

Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne 1520-3

Van Dyck's Charity 1627-8.

Sassoferrato's depiction of Blessed Virgin Mary, c. 1654. Her blue cloak is painted in ultramarine.

Rembrandt's Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels 1654-6.

Arthur Hughes - April Love (c. 1855)

Turner's Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus 1829

William Holman Hunt's Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus 1851.

Renoir's The Skiff 1875 ("Boating on the Seine")

van Gogh's The Night Cafe 1888

Paul Gauguin Maternity (1899)

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