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| ORANGE Domenichino Sacrifice of Isaac 1627-28 Prado |
The paintings arranged here came into existence during the long European sequence of years (from about 1500 to about 1900) when the illusionistic representation of manufactured textiles flourished. Each of these selections has a surface subject – an ostensible human story to tell – yet at the same time each can equally be read as the portrait of a specific, color-saturated piece of fabric.
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| PINK Jacques Joseph Tissot Portrait of the Marquise de Miramon 1866 Getty |
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| RED Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait of Maria Amalia of Saxony ca. 1761 Prado |
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| YELLOW Alexandre Cabanel Portrait of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe 1875 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| GREEN John Singleton Copley Portrait of Ebenezer Storer 1767-69 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| BLUE Titian Mater Dolorosa 1554 Prado |
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| VIOLET Diego Velázquez Coronation of the Virgin ca. 1635-36 Prado |
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| INDIGO Jerónimo Jacinto Espinosa Penitent Magdalene 17th century Prado |
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| WHITE El Greco Julián Romero with his Patron Saint ca. 1594-1604 Prado |
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| BLACK Nicholaes Eliasz. Pickenoy Portrait of a woman 1632 Getty |
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| GOLD Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott 1778 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| BRONZE Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo Mary Magdalene at the Sepulchre 1530s Getty |