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A History of Art in Three Colours

Episode 3: White

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Four

Dr James Fox looks at how, during the Age of Reason, it was the rediscovery of the white columns and marbles of antiquity that made white the most virtuous of colours. Show more

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