What to Read After Bright Earth
Readers who loved Bright Earth by Philip Ball keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Bright Earth is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Bright Earth
Color
Blue
Perfect Red
Mauve
Chromophobia (FOCI)
How Art Made the World
Jewels
The Art of Colour
The Primary Colors
Color and Meaning
A History of Illuminated Manuscript
Daybook, the Journey of an Artist
The Language of Post-modern Architecture
Goethe's Theory of colours
Movements in Art Since 1945.
In Ruins
Colour and Culture
History of Italian Renaissance art
History of art
On Ugliness
About Looking
History Of Beauty
Brunelleschi's Dome
Leonardo's Notebooks