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Many challenges hinder the historical study of early modern color. These essays offer a way forward through the category of ´color worlds´-constituted by practices, concepts and objects-and examine the emergence of the languages and objects used to communicate between them.

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Color has recently become the focus of scholarly discussion in many fields, but the categories of art, craft, science and technology, unreflectively defined according to modern disciplines, have not been helpful in understanding color in the early modern period. ´Color worlds´, consisting of practices, concepts and objects, form the central category of analysis in this volume. The essays examine a rich variety of ´color worlds´, and their constituent engagements with materials, productions and the ordering and conceptualization of color. Many color worlds appear to have intersected and cross-fertilized at the beginning of the seventeenth century; the essays focus especially on the creation of color languages and boundary objects to communicate across color worlds, or indeed when and why this failed to happen.

Contributors include: Tawrin Baker, Barbara H. Berrie, Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, Karin Leonhard, Andrew Morrall, Doris Oltrogge, Valentina Pugliano, Anna Marie Roos, Romana Sammern (Filzmoser) and Simon Werrett.

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Introduction: Early Modern Color Worlds 1
Tawrin Baker, Sven Dupré, Sachiko Kusukawa, Karin Leonhard

Mining for Color: New Blues, Yellows, and Translucent Paint 20
Barbara H. Berrie

Writing on Pigments in Natural History and Art Technology in Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland 47
Doris Oltrogge

Ulisse Aldrovandi´s Color Sensibility: Natural History, Language and the Lay Color Practices of Renaissance Virtuosi 70
Valentina Pugliano

Red, White and Black: Colors of Beauty, Tints of Health and Cosmetic Materials in Early Modern English Art Writing 109
Romana Sammern

Painted Gems. The Color Worlds of Portrait Miniature Painting in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Britain 140
Karin Leonhard

Fireworks and Color in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 170
Simon Werrett

´ Siben Farben und Künsten frey ´: The Place of Color in Martin Schaffner´s Universe Tabletop of 1533 190
Andrew Morrall

Understandings of Colors: Varieties of Theories in the Color Worlds of the Early Seventeenth Century 227
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis

Color and Contingency in Robert Boyle´s Works 248
Tawrin Baker

The Saline Chymistry of Color in Seventeenth-Century English Natural History 274
Anna Marie Roos

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