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Colours in art and culture

Project coordinators: Prof. Malgorzata Wrzesniak

Prof. Agnieszka Bender

BLUE

Lapis Lazuli, Indigo plant, Woad plant

Detail from the Ancient Egyptian frescos in the Tomb of Seti I, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty

Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun,18th Dynasty 

Medieval art

Giovanni di Paolo, The Creation and the Expulsion from the Paradise, 1445

Part of Bible de Souvigny, 12th century, France

Saint d Saint-Denis Cathedral

Royal colour

Louis IX, 14th century

Henry III of

England, 13th

century depiction of Henry's

first coronation in 1216

Renesance

Raphael , Madonna in the Meadow,

1506

Leonardo da Vinci Madonna of the Yarnwinder, 1501

Luca della Robbia, Madonna and Child,

1465

The Painter of blue, Johannes Vermeer

The Milkmaid, 1657–1658

Girl with a Pearl Earring , 1665

Girl Reading a Letter at an Open

Window, 1657

Edgar Degas, Blue Dancers, 1890

Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1906

Pablo Picasso, Man with a guitar, 1903

Henri Matisse, Nu bleu II,

1952

Yves Klein, ant su 57, 1960

20th century

Advertising from the

Vogue Magazine,

1935

Blue in Polish poster art

In advertising of cleanliness and

hygiene productswater

In advertising of air, sky and

technique

Azulejos Azulejos in Porto, Portugal

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Chinese Porcelain,

Delft pottery, and Gzhel

Delft pottery 16th century

Ming dynasty porcelain 1368-1644

Delft theme

in fashion

Valentino collection, 2013

Beejing fashion week

International organizations

Olympic Flag

Izabela IwanickaDarina Usanova

Alisa ShchekotovaPavel KastusikJan Juskowiak

Olga FilipowskaPatryk Kornaga

Mariia BadiaginaManduul BavuudorjAleksandra Kawa