Los colores primarios, de Alexander Theroux
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ♫♫♫ Paint it black - The Rolling Stones ♫♫♫ “ I have always wondered, how expensive was blue for Botticelli? And whether his lavish use of royal blue for the dress and robe of the Virgin, for example, personally cost him anything? Did the rarity of blue affect compositions? And what about frescoes by people like Piero della Francesca? Their bright blue skies must have been costly—or had there been a cheaper way to do it? Did Marco Polo return from the Orient with new, better, more plangent, lambent, luminous, lacustrine blues ? How was Maya blue obtained, and why were all those figurines of noblemen and women and priests found buried on the island necropolis of Jaina in Mexico covered in blue pigment?” “ The unclouded April blue eyes of Simonetta Vespucci, Botticelli s immemorial model? Blue is everywhere.” La verdad es que mis lecturas están siendo un poco caóticas dentro de mi orden personal pero no puedo programar nada, imposible hacer...