Originally published: Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 1995.
White lies -- Shadow is the queen of colour -- On seeing red -- The romance of the rose and the sleep of colour -- Grey matter -- Marsilio Ficino -- Green fingers -- Alchemical colour -- How now brown cow -- The perils of yellow -- Orange tip -- Leonardo -- Into the blue -- Isaac Newton -- Purple passage -- Black arts : o mia anima nera -- Silver and gold -- Iridescence -- Translucence.