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Pale Medici Blue |
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Mid Medici Blue |
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Deep Medici Blue |
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Medici Green |
Medici colours
Catherine de Medici (1519-1589), the Queen of Henry II of France, was a great patron of the arts and brought artists and craftsmen from Italy for her schemes. Philibert de L'Orme relates how she discussed with him the plans and decoration of the Palace of the Tuileries.
Marie de Medici (1573-1642) was also a patron of art and was the means, aided by Richelieu, of bringing from Italy into France decorative painters, who became associated with the Luxembourg and Gobelin Tapestry factories.
The Riccardi Palace in Florence, once the house of the Medicis, is, and ever was, a treasury of antiquity and of the arts. The passion for art for this family of many generations, with all its co-lateral branches, either as collectors, patrons or builders, marked an advance in the arts which posterity has perpetuated with the family name.
Medici Blue is essentially a decorative colour, especially useful for architectural work to emphasise the features of the structure or as a background for ornaments.
What DOT did with historical colour on the designerpaint web site