A History of Art in Three Colours

Season 1 • Episode 3: White • Watch with subtitles

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Episode 3: White

August 8, 2012 • 59 min

In the Age of Reason, it was the rediscovery of the white columns and marbles of antiquity that made white the most virtuous of colours. For the flamboyant JJ Wickelmann and the British genius Josiah Wedgewood, white embodied all the Enlightenment values of justice, equality and reason.

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