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A History of Art in Three Colours

Episode 2: Blue

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Four

Dr James Fox explores how the arrival in Europe of lapis lazuli turned blue into an exotic colour. Artists began to use it to offer us glimpses of worlds beyond our own. Show more

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