Color History Bibliography

Baines, J. 1985. “Color Terminology and Color Classification: Ancient Egyptian Color Terminology and Polychromy.” American Anthropologist 87 (2): 282–97.

Bradley, M. 2009. “The Importance of Colour on Ancient Marble Sculpture.” Art History 32 (3): 427–57.

———. 2012. “Color and Color Perception, Greece and Rome.” In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 1–2. New York: Wiley.

Cannata, M. 2012. “Funerary Artists: The Textual Evidence.” In Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt, edited by C. Riggs, 598–629. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cleland, L., K. Stears, and G. Davies. 2004. Colour in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Oxford: Hadrian Books.

Crone, R. A. 1999. A History of Color: The Evolution of Theories of Light and Color. Dordrecht, Boston, and London: Luwar Academic Publishers.

Davies, W. V., ed. 2001. Colour and Painting in Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press.

Goldman, R., ed. 2016. Essays in Global Color History. Piscataway, NY: Gorgias Press.  

Kessler, D. 2009. “Ptolemaic Polychromy Compared with Roman Polychromy. Examples from the Animal Galleries of Tuna el-Gebel, Egypt.” Relics and Museology 6: 354–64.

Mekhitarian, A. 1978. Egyptian Painting. New York: Rizzoli.

Peters, E. A. 2018. “Coloring the Temple of Dendur.” Metropolitan Museum Journal 53 (1): 8–23.

Tiradritti, F. 2007. “Color in Egyptian Art.” In Egyptian Wall Painting. New York, London: Abbeville Press.

Venit, Marjorie. 2002. The Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: The Theater of the Dead. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

———. 2016. Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.