Green (Colour Wheel)

Green is a web safe colour and one of 16 valid colour names listed by W3C.

  1. Alchemy

    2. Solvents for gold were named "Green Lion" or "Green Dragon".

  2. Expressionism

    3. Directly opposite each other on the colour wheel developed by the Swiss Expressionist painter Johannes Ittens (1888-1967) are fully saturated colours: green and red. Ittens, described them as complementary colours, having the same brilliance. The Dutch Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) used saturated greens for the ceiling of Le Café de nuit in Arles. Expressionist painting uses blocks of unmixed colour to express emotion.

  3. Renaissance

    4. Restoration of Michelangelo Buonarroti's Sistine Chapel ceiling, in Rome, and the Feast of of the Gods (Giovanni Bellini, Titian) in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., has brought out original, saturated greens of tunics and skirts.

Giovanni Bellini and Titian, The Feast of the Gods detail with Mercury
Hexadecimal Code: 
00FF00
Red Channel: 
0
Green Channel: 
255
Blue Channel: 
0
Primary: 
Green Lion Yellow-Green
Amazon Books
Image of The Alchemy of Paint: Art, Science and Secrets from the Middle Ages: Colour and Meaning Fom the Middle Ages
Author: Spike Bucklow
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 362 pages
Image of In Pursuit of the Green Lion: A Margaret of Ashbury Novel (Margaret of Ashbury Trilogy)
Author: Judith Merkle Riley
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 451 pages