From the Book - 1st American ed.
1. The eye of the beholder : the scientist in the studio - 2. Plucking the rainbow : the physics and chemistry of color --
3. The forge of Vulcan : color technology in antiquity --
4. Secret recipes : alchemy's artistic legacy --
5. Masters of light and shadow : the glory of the Renaissance --
6. Old gold : the revival of an austere palette --
7. The prismatic metals : synthetic pigments and the dawn of color chemistry --
8. The reign of light : Impressionism's bright impact --
9. A passion for purple : dyes and the industrialization of color --
10. Shades of midnight : the problem of blue --
11. Time as painter : the ever-changing canvas --
12. Capturing color : how art appears in reproduction --
13. Mind over matter : color as form in Modernism --
14. Art for art's sake : new materials, new horizons.
