Introduction 1. First impressions Stone Age, Egypt, Ancient Greece and Rome Feature: The nature of colour - how artists created natural colours. Horses, from the Chauvet cave near the Pont d''Arc Bison, from Altamira Nebamun Hunting Birds, from the tomb of Nebamun Tomb of the Diver 2. Ordering the world The Renaissance Feature: A roaring trade - on the colour trade and the cost/availability of colours Lamentation, Giotto Saint Ansanus Altarpiece, Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi The Wilton Diptych Saints Jerome and John the Baptist, Masaccio Portrait of a Man with a Turban, Jan van Eyck The Magdalen Reading, Rogier Van der Weyden The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli The Rape of Europa, Titian Philip II, Sofonisba Anguissola Portrait of Bianca Degli Utili Maselli surrounded by six of her children, Lavinia Fontana 3. Cutting loose Baroque to Rococo Feature: The colour wheel - on Isaac Newton''s discovery of the colour spectrum, and his error - trusting maths over the sensations of the eye Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Caravaggio Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi The Toilet of Venus (The Rokeby Venus), Diego Velázquez Rising and Setting of the Sun, François Boucher Colour, Angelica Kauffman Self-Portrait with Straw Hat, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun 4. Keeping it real Realism Feature: Risky business - on poisonous colours and artists risking their lives for their work. Still Life with Cheeses, Artichoke and Cherries, Clara Peeters A Woman Bathing in a Stream, Rembrandt van Rijn The Goldfinch, Carel Fabritius The Milkmaid, Johannes Vermeer Flowers in a Vase, Rachel Ruysch 5. Two sides of a coin Neoclassicism to Romanticism Feature: How we see colour - on Goethe''s new symmetrical colour wheel and physiological theories.

Albion Rose, William Blake Portrait of a Negress, Marie-Guillemine Benoist Orphan Girl at the Cemetery, Eugène Delacroix The Burning of the Houses of Parliament , Joseph Mallord William Turner Comtesse d''Haussonville, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 6. Let there be light The Impressionist Revolution Feature: Colour chemistry - on the industrialisation of colour and the making of synthetic pigments. Two Women Chatting by the Sea, Camille Pissarro Young Woman with Peonies, Frédéric Bazille Symphony in Flesh Color and Pink: Portrait of Mrs Frances Leyland, by James Abbott McNeill Whistler Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets, Édouard Manet In the Country (After Lunch), Berthe Morisot Comb.