White: the history of a color

Introduction

The Color of the Gods: from earliest times to the beginning of Christianity

From nature to culture

The moon and the sacred

A false image: white Greece

Wool and linen: dressing in white

The lessons of the lexicon

White versus black

The Color of Christ: fourth to fourteenth centuries

Biblical white

A Christian color

White versus red

Regarding the lily: a white floriary

The Lamb, the swan, and the dove: a white bestiary

A feminine color

The Color of Kings: fifteenth to eighteenth centuries

The birth of a symbolic system

White, first among the colors

Birth and death in white

The color of nobility

The white of the monarchy

Ink and paper

The Color of Modernity: eighteenth to twenty-first centuries

White and black: no longer colors

The white of artists

From cleanliness to health

Dressing in white

Lexicons and symbols