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Art in colours

Judas Repentant, Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver by Rembrandt (Credit: Alamy)
Art in colours

The colour of betrayal

By Kelly Grovier

(Credit: Wikimedia)
Art in colours

The colour of debauchery

By Kelly Grovier
(Credit: Wikimedia)
Art in colours

The murky history of the colour yellow

By Kelly Grovier
lmmaculate Conception by Baltasar de Echave (Credit: Museo Nacional de Arte de Mexico)
Art in colours

The rare blue the Maya invented

By Devon Van Houten Maldonado
(Credit: Wikimedia)
Art in colours

The disgusting origins of purple

By Kelly Grovier
The Arnolfini Portrait (Credit: Getty Images)
Art in colours

The colour that means life and death

By Kelly Grovier
Credit: Alamy
Art in colours

The shady past of the colour pink

By Kelly Grovier
(Credit: Alamy)
Art in colours

The pigment made of human remains

By Kelly Grovier
Kazimir Malevich painted his Black Square in 1915 – in 2015 microscopic examination revealed a racist joke within (Credit: Alamy)
Art

The artwork that hid a racist message

By Kelly Grovier
Flaming June (Credit: Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.)
Art

The colour that comes from volcanoes

By Kelly Grovier
An array of colourful tiles stretches across these shapes, foreshadowing today’s colour charts (Credit: Yale University Art Gallery)
Art

The painting that revolutionised colour

By Kelly Grovier
Saint Jerome as Scholar by El Greco, 1610 (Credit: Alamy)
Art

The insect that painted Europe red

By Devon Van Houten Maldonado
(Credit: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Art

When the Parthenon had dazzling colours

By Natalie Haynes

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