The Chromobase is the database of the ERC project CHROMOTOPE which explores the cultural impact of the new colours that appeared in the 1850s.

Black fashion

Colour Materiality

1879

Pure black, blue-black, or red-black: The crucial role of shades in 19th-century silk textiles

Edgar Pansu

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Lustre decorations

Colour Materiality

1855

Renaissance revival and chemistry: the colours of Italian maiolica

Rosarosa Manca

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Erechtheion

Colour Materiality

1851

Gottfried Semper and the 'Chemical Proof' of polychromy

Isabelle Kalinowski

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The Shadow of Death

Colour Materiality

1870

William Holman Hunt and the Racialization of Roberson’s Orange Vermilion in The Shadow of Death (1870-1873)

Kirsty Dootson

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Letter from Camille Koechlin to Horace Koechlin

Colour Materiality

1861

Fixing aniline violets around 1860: a European network

Marie-Anne Sarda

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Barnard's sketchbook

Colour Materiality

1855

Mary Gartside’s abstract afterlife? Blots in George Barnard’s paint manual

Alexandra Loske

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Catalogue général de la parfumerie et savonnerie Gellé frères, vers 1885.

Colour Materiality

1868

Perfumes: The Future of Synthetic Colours

Erika Wicky

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Symphony in White n°1: The White Girl

Colour Materiality

1861

From Colour to Music: James McNeill Whistler

Marte Stinis

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Gentian

Colour Pedagogy

1862

John Ruskin and ‘the gentian blue’

Stella Granier

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Kaleidoscopic colour top

Colour Materiality

1858

John Gorham’s Colour Top

Paul Smith

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Egyptian Court

Colour Scape

1854

The Egyptian Court at Sydenham

Stephanie Moser

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Vignette

Colour Pedagogy

1851

Mary Philadelphia Merrifield and the Great Exhibition of 1851

Alexandra Loske

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Joseph

Colour Pedagogy

1865

The colours of the biblical past in Owen Jones’s History of Joseph and His Brethren

Madeline Hewitson

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Bookcase

Colour Materiality

1862

From old to new: the colours of William Burges’s Great Bookcase

Tea Ghigo

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Fabric

Colour Pedagogy

1852

Persoz and the Chair of dyeing and printing at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers

Anne-Laure Carré

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Fuchsine RENARD

Colour Materiality

1858

Fuchsine

Irene Bilbao-Zubiri

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hirestinted venus stereo

Colour Scape

1862

The Colours of the London International Exhibition of 1862

Charlotte Ribeyrol

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Fuchsine-dyed fibers

Colour Materiality

1859

Fuchsine and Fashion: a Bright Pinkish Trend

Alessandra Ronetti

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Vue intérieure de la Sainte Chapelle 3/3

Colour Pedagogy

1851

Persoz, the birth of heritage sciences and medieval colours

Arnaud Dubois

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Narrative Timeline

1850

1851

1852

1853

1854

1855

1856

1857

1858

1859

1860

1861

1862

1863

1864

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1866

1867

1868

1869

1870

1871

1872

1873

1874

1875

1876

1877

1878

1879

1880

Vignette

Colour Pedagogy

1851

Mary Philadelphia Merrifield and the Great Exhibition of 1851

Alexandra Loske

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Fuchsine-dyed fibers

Colour Materiality

1859

Fuchsine and Fashion: a Bright Pinkish Trend

Alessandra Ronetti

Read

hirestinted venus stereo

Colour Scape

1862

The Colours of the London International Exhibition of 1862

Charlotte Ribeyrol

Read

Kaleidoscopic colour top

Colour Materiality

1858

John Gorham’s Colour Top

Paul Smith

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Lustre decorations

Colour Materiality

1855

Renaissance revival and chemistry: the colours of Italian maiolica

Rosarosa Manca

Read

Letter from Camille Koechlin to Horace Koechlin

Colour Materiality

1861

Fixing aniline violets around 1860: a European network

Marie-Anne Sarda

Read

Bookcase

Colour Materiality

1862

From old to new: the colours of William Burges’s Great Bookcase

Tea Ghigo

Read

Catalogue général de la parfumerie et savonnerie Gellé frères, vers 1885.

Colour Materiality

1868

Perfumes: The Future of Synthetic Colours

Erika Wicky

Read

Egyptian Court

Colour Scape

1854

The Egyptian Court at Sydenham

Stephanie Moser

Read

Fabric

Colour Pedagogy

1852

Persoz and the Chair of dyeing and printing at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers

Anne-Laure Carré

Read

Barnard's sketchbook

Colour Materiality

1855

Mary Gartside’s abstract afterlife? Blots in George Barnard’s paint manual

Alexandra Loske

Read

Gentian

Colour Pedagogy

1862

John Ruskin and ‘the gentian blue’

Stella Granier

Read

Vue intérieure de la Sainte Chapelle 3/3

Colour Pedagogy

1851

Persoz, the birth of heritage sciences and medieval colours

Arnaud Dubois

Read

Fuchsine RENARD

Colour Materiality

1858

Fuchsine

Irene Bilbao-Zubiri

Read

Symphony in White n°1: The White Girl

Colour Materiality

1861

From Colour to Music: James McNeill Whistler

Marte Stinis

Read

Black fashion

Colour Materiality

1879

Pure black, blue-black, or red-black: The crucial role of shades in 19th-century silk textiles

Edgar Pansu

Read

The Shadow of Death

Colour Materiality

1870

William Holman Hunt and the Racialization of Roberson’s Orange Vermilion in The Shadow of Death (1870-1873)

Kirsty Dootson

Read

Joseph

Colour Pedagogy

1865

The colours of the biblical past in Owen Jones’s History of Joseph and His Brethren

Madeline Hewitson

Read

Erechtheion

Colour Materiality

1851

Gottfried Semper and the 'Chemical Proof' of polychromy

Isabelle Kalinowski

Read

Colour wheel

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