Author: Michel Pastoureau 

In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of “Blue and Black” presents a fascinating and revealing history of the color green in European societies from prehistoric times to today.

Filled with entertaining and enlightening anecdotes, “Green” shows that the color has been ambivalent: a symbol of life, luck, and hope, but also disorder, greed, poison, and the devil.

Chemically unstable, green pigments were long difficult to produce and even harder to fix.

Not surprisingly, the color has been associated with all that is changeable and fleeting: childhood, love, and money.