The Ancient Art of Color
What painstaking processes created pigments that lasted millennia?
Pliny the Elder wasn’t all that impressed. He acknowledged the significance and symbolism of the stuff:
It is for this colour that the fasces and axes of Rome make way in the crowd; it is this that asserts the majesty of childhood; it is this that distinguishes the senator from the man of equestrian rank; by persons arrayed in this colour are prayers add…
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