Blue Symbolism in Ancient Greece and Rome Even descriptions of rainbows omit the color blue. Though they had no word for blue in their languages, historical records indicate that ancient Greeks ...

Medieval Colours and Their Meanings... In the Middle Ages scholars followed the idea from Antiquity that there were seven ...

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, to present day cobalt mining. Her new book is Black in Blues.

The color blue is thought to protect against the evil eye in Mediterranean cultures. This article unfolds the yet-unstudied role played by kabbalistic theology, symbolism, and myth in the construction ...

Thoreau's color symbols are part of an elaborate system of symbolic imagery he used to express the stage of controllable insight at which the spiritual and moral in nature could be conveyed. But they ...