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This article is about the color. For other uses, see Purple (disambiguation).
Purple
Clockwise, from top left: an iris; bishops; an eggplant; sunset; Messier
81
Color coordinates
Byzantine Emperor Justinian I clad in Tyrian purple, 6th-century mosaic at Basilica of San Vitale
Purple first appeared in prehistoric art during the Neolithic era. The artists of Pech
Merle cave and other Neolithic sites in France used sticks
of manganese and hematite powder to draw and paint animals and the outlines of their
own hands on the walls of their caves. These works have been dated to between
16,000 and 25,000 BC.[9]
As early as the 15th century BC the citizens of Sidon and Tyre, two cities on the coast
of Ancient Phoenicia (present day Lebanon), were producing purple dye from a sea
snail called the spiny dye-murex.[10] Clothing colored with the Tyrian dye was mentioned
in both the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil.[10] The deep, rich purple dye made
from this snail became known as Tyrian purple.[11]
The process of making the dye was long, difficult and expensive. Thousands of the tiny
snails had to be found, their shells cracked, the snail removed. Mountains of empty
shells have been found at the ancient sites of Sidon and Tyre. The snails were left to
soak, then a tiny gland was removed and the juice extracted and put in a basin, which
was placed in the sunlight. There, a remarkable transformation took place. In the
sunlight the juice turned white, then yellow-green, then green, then violet, then a red
which turned darker and darker. The process had to be stopped at exactly the right time
to obtain the desired color, which could range from a bright crimson to a dark purple, the
color of dried blood. Then either wool, linen or silk would be dyed. The exact hue varied
between crimson and violet, but it was always rich, bright and lasting. [12]
Tyrian purple became the color of kings, nobles, priests and magistrates all around the
Mediterranean. It was mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament); in the Book of
Exodus, God instructs Moses to have the Israelites bring him an offering including cloth
"of blue, and purple, and scarlet,"[13] to be used in the curtains of the Tabernacle and the
garments of priests. The term used for purple in the 4th-century Latin Vulgate version of
the Bible passage is purpura or Tyrian purple.[14] In the Iliad of Homer, the belt of Ajax is
purple, and the tails of the horses of Trojan warriors are dipped in purple. In
the Odyssey, the blankets on the wedding bed of Odysseus are purple. In the poems
of Sappho (6th century BC) she celebrates the skill of the dyers of the Greek kingdom
of Lydia who made purple footwear, and in the play of Aeschylus (525–456 BC),
Queen Clytemnestra welcomes back her husband Agamemnon by decorating the
palace with purple carpets. In 950 BC, King Solomon was reported to have brought
artisans from Tyre to provide purple fabrics to decorate the Temple of Jerusalem.[15]
Alexander the Great (when giving imperial audiences as the basileus of the Macedonian
Empire), the basileus of the Seleucid Empire, and the kings of Ptolemaic Egypt all wore
Tyrian purple.
The Roman custom of wearing purple togas may have come from the Etruscans; an
Etruscan tomb painting from the 4th century BC shows a nobleman wearing a deep
purple and embroidered toga.
In Ancient Rome, the Toga praetexta was an ordinary white toga with a broad purple
stripe on its border. It was worn by freeborn Roman boys who had not yet come of age,
[16]
curule magistrates,[17][18] certain categories of priests,[19] and a few other categories of
citizens.
The Toga picta was solid purple, embroidered with gold. During the Roman Republic, it
was worn by generals in their triumphs, and by the Praetor Urbanus when he rode in the
chariot of the gods into the circus at the Ludi Apollinares.[20] During the Empire, the toga
picta was worn by magistrates giving public gladiatorial games, and by the consuls, as
well as by the emperor on special occasions.
During the Roman Republic, when a triumph was held, the general being honored wore
an entirely purple toga bordered in gold, and Roman Senators wore a toga with a purple
stripe. However, during the Roman Empire, purple was more and more associated
exclusively with the emperors and their officers. [21] Suetonius claims that the early
emperor Caligula had the King of Mauretania murdered for the splendour of his purple
cloak, and that Nero forbade the use of certain purple dyes.[22] In the late empire the sale
of purple cloth became a state monopoly protected by the death penalty. [23]
According to the New Testament, Jesus Christ, in the hours leading up to his crucifixion,
was dressed in purple (πορφύρα: porphura) by the Roman garrison to mock his claim to
be 'King of the Jews'.[24]
The actual color of Tyrian purple seems to have varied from a reddish to a bluish purple.
According to the Roman writer Vitruvius, (1st century BC), the murex shells coming from
northern waters, probably Bolinus brandaris, produced a more bluish color than those of
the south, probably Hexaplex trunculus. The most valued shades were said to be those
closer to the color of dried blood, as seen in the mosaics of the robes of the Emperor
Justinian in Ravenna. The chemical composition of the dye from the murex is close to
that of the dye from indigo, and indigo was sometimes used to make a counterfeit
Tyrian purple, a crime which was severely punished. What seems to have mattered
about Tyrian purple was not its color, but its luster, richness, its resistance to weather
and light, and its high price.[25]
In modern times, Tyrian purple has been recreated, at great expense. When the
German chemist Paul Friedander tried to recreate Tyrian purple in 2008, he needed
twelve thousand mollusks to create 1.4 ounces of dye, enough to color a handkerchief.
In the year 2000, a gram of Tyrian purple made from ten thousand mollusks according
to the original formula cost two thousand euros. [26][27]
China
Main article: Han purple and Han blue
In ancient China, purple was obtained not through the Mediterranean mollusc,
but purple gromwell. The dye obtained did not easily adhere to fabrics, making purple
fabrics expensive. Purple became a fashionable color in the state of Qi (齊, 1046 BC–
221 BC) because its ruler, Qin Shi Huang, developed a preference for it. As a result, the
price of purple fabric was over five times that of plain fabric. His minister, Guan
Zhong (管仲), eventually convinced him to relinquish this preference.
China was the first culture to develop a synthetic purple color. [28]
An old hypothesis suggested links between the Chinese purple and blue and Egyptian
blue, however, molecular structure analysis and evidence such as the absence of lead
in Egyptian blue and the lack of examples of Egyptian blue in China, argued against the
hypothesis.[29][30] The use of quartz, barium, and lead components in ancient Chinese
glass and Han purple and Han blue has been used to suggest a connection between
glassmaking and the manufacture of pigments, [31] and to prove the independence of the
Chinese invention.[29] Taoist alchemists may have developed Han purple from their
knowledge of glassmaking.[29]
Lead is used by the pigment maker to lower the melting point of the barium in Han
Purple.[32]
Purple was regarded as a secondary color in ancient China. In classical times,
secondary colors were not as highly prized as the five primary colors of the Chinese
spectrum, and purple was used to allude to impropriety, in contrast to crimson, which
was deemed a primary color and symbolized legitimacy. Nevertheless, by the 6th
century AD, purple was ranked above crimson. Several changes to the ranks of colors
occurred after that time.
An Egyptian bowl colored with Egyptian blue, with motifs painted in dark manganese purple.
(between 1550 and 1450 BC)
Painting of a man wearing an all-purple toga picta, from an Etruscan tomb (about 350 BC).
Cloth dyed with Tyrian purple. The color could vary from crimson to deep purple, depending
upon the type of murex sea-snail and how it was made.
The Empress Theodora, the wife of the Emperor Justinian I, dressed in Tyrian purple. (6th
century).
A medieval depiction of the coronation of the Emperor Charlemagne in 800. The bishops and
cardinals wear purple, and the Pope wears white.
A fragment of the shroud in which the Emperor Charlemagne was buried in 814. It was made of
gold and Tyrian purple from Constantinople.
In the Ghent Altarpiece (1422) by Jan van Eyck, the popes and bishops are wearing purple
robes.
Queen Anne of Great Britain in golden dress and a purple velvet and ermine mantle (1705)
Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (in dark purple dress) with her husband Prince Gaston and
their son, the Prince of Grão-Pará at purple dusk (1877)
The coronation portrait of Elizabeth II and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1953) has three different
shades of purple in the train, curtains and crown.
Symbol of the Feminist movement in the United States (1970s). The purple color was chosen as
a tribute to the Suffragette movement a half-century earlier.
This CIE chromaticity diagram highlights the line of purples at its base, running from the violet corner near the
left to the red corner at the right.
On a computer or television screen, purple colors are created by mixing red and blue light. This
is called the RGB color model.
Pigments
Hematite and manganese are the oldest pigments used for the color purple. They
were used by Neolithic artists in the form of sticks, like charcoal, or ground and
powdered and mixed with fat, and used as a paint. Hematite is a reddish iron
oxide which, when ground coarsely, makes a purple pigment. One such pigment
is caput mortuum, whose name is also used in reference to mummy brown. The
latter is another pigment containing hematite and historically produced with the use
of mummified corpses.[58] Some of its compositions produce a purple color and may
be called "mummy violet".[59] Manganese was also used in Roman times to color
glass purple.[60]
Han purple was the first synthetic purple pigment, invented in China in about 700
BC. It was used in wall paintings and pottery and other applications. In color, it was
very close to indigo, which had a similar chemical structure. Han purple was very
unstable, and sometimes was the result of the chemical breakdown of Han blue.
During the Middle Ages, artists usually made purple by combining red and blue
pigments; most often blue azurite or lapis-lazuli with red ochre, cinnabar, or minium.
They also combined lake colors made by mixing dye with powder; using woad or indigo
dye for the blue, and dye made from cochineal for the red.[61]
Cobalt violet was the first modern synthetic color in the purple family, manufactured
in 1859. It was found, along with cobalt blue, in the palette of Claude Monet, Paul
Signac, and Georges Seurat. It was stable, but had low tinting power and was
expensive, so quickly went out of use.[62]
Manganese violet was a stronger color than cobalt violet, and replaced it on the
market.
Quinacridone violet, one of a modern synthetic organic family of colors, was
discovered in 1896 but not marketed until 1955. It is sold today under a number of
brand names.
Hematite was often used as the red-purple color in the cave paintings of Neolithic artists.
A sample of purpurite, or manganese phosphate, from the Packrat Mine in Southern California.
Dyes
The most famous purple dye in the ancient world was Tyrian purple, made from a type
of sea snail called the murex, found around the Mediterranean. (See history section
above).[44]
In western Polynesia, residents of the islands made a purple dye similar to Tyrian purple
from the sea urchin. In Central America, the inhabitants made a dye from a different sea
snail, the purpura, found on the coasts of Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The Mayans used
this color to dye fabric for religious ceremonies, while the Aztecs used it for paintings of
ideograms, where it symbolized royalty.[61]
In the Middle Ages, those who worked with blue and black dyes belonged to separate
guilds from those who worked with red and yellow dyes, and were often forbidden to
dye any other colors than those of their own guild. [63] Most purple fabric was made by the
dyers who worked with red, and who used dye from madder or cochineal, so Medieval
violet colors were inclined toward red. [citation needed]
Orcein, or purple moss, was another common purple dye. It was known to the ancient
Greeks and Hebrews, and was made from a Mediterranean lichen called archil or dyer's
moss (Roccella tinctoria), combined with an ammoniac, usually urine. Orcein began to
achieve popularity again in the 19th century, when violet and purple became the color of
demi-mourning, worn after a widow or widower had worn black for a certain time, before
he or she returned to wearing ordinary colors.[64]
From the Middle Ages onward, purple dyes for the clothing of common people were
often made from the blackberry or other red fruit of the genus rubus, or from
the mulberry. All of these dyes were more reddish than bluish, and faded easily with
washing and exposure to sunlight.
A popular new dye which arrived in Europe from the New World during the Renaissance
was made from the wood of the logwood tree (Haematoxylum campechianum), which
grew in Spanish Mexico. Depending on the different minerals added to the dye, it
produced a blue, red, black or, with the addition of alum, a purple color, It made a good
color, but, like earlier dyes, it did not resist sunlight or washing.
In the 18th century, chemists in England, France and Germany began to create the first
synthetic dyes. Two synthetic purple dyes were invented at about the same
time. Cudbear is a dye extracted from orchil lichens that can be used to
dye wool and silk, without the use of mordant. Cudbear was developed by Dr Cuthbert
Gordon of Scotland: production began in 1758, The lichen is first boiled in a solution
of ammonium carbonate. The mixture is then cooled and ammonia is added and the
mixture is kept damp for 3–4 weeks. Then the lichen is dried and ground to powder. The
manufacture details were carefully protected, with a ten-feet high wall being built around
the manufacturing facility, and staff consisting of Highlanders sworn to secrecy.
French purple was developed in France at about the same time. The lichen is
extracted by urine or ammonia. Then the extract is acidified, the dissolved dye
precipitates and is washed. Then it is dissolved in ammonia again, the solution is
heated in air until it becomes purple, then it is precipitated with calcium chloride; the
resulting dye was more solid and stable than other purples.
Cobalt violet is a synthetic pigment that was invented in the second half of the 19th
century, and is made by a similar process as cobalt blue, cerulean blue and cobalt
green. It is the violet pigment most commonly used today by artists. In spite of its name,
this pigment produces a purple rather than violet color [43]
Mauveine, also known as aniline purple and Perkin's mauve, was the first
synthetic organic chemical dye,[65][66] discovered serendipitously in 1856. Its chemical
name is 3-amino-2,±9-dimethyl-5-phenyl-7-(p-tolylamino)phenazinium acetate.
Fuchsine was another synthetic dye made shortly after mauveine. It produced a brilliant
fuchsia color.
In the 1950s, a new family of purple and violet synthetic organic pigments
called quinacridone came onto the market. It had originally been discovered in 1896, but
were not synthesized until 1936, and not manufactured until the 1950s. The colors in
the group range from deep red to bluish purple in color, and have the molecular formula
C20H12N2O2. They have strong resistance to sunlight and washing, and are widely used
today in oil paints, water colors, and acrylics, as well as in automobile coatings and
other industrial coatings.
This lichen, growing on a tree in Scotland, was used in the 18th century to make a common
purple dye called Cudbear.
A sample of fuchsine dye
Animals
The purple frog is a species of amphibian found in India.
Anthocyanins
Certain grapes, eggplants, pansies and other fruits, vegetables and flowers may appear
purple due to the presence of natural pigments called anthocyanins. These pigments
are found in the leaves, roots, stems, vegetables, fruits and flowers of all plants. They
aid photosynthesis by blocking harmful wavelengths of light that would damage the
leaves. In flowers, the purple anthocyanins help attract insects who pollinate the
flowers. Not all anthocyanins are purple; they vary in color from red to purple to blue,
green, or yellow, depending upon the level of their pH.
The purple colors of this cauliflower, grapes, fruits, vegetables and flowers comes from natural
pigments called anthocyanins.
Anthocyanins range in color from red to purple to green, blue and yellow, depending upon the
level of their pH.
Anthocyanins also account for the purple color in these copper beech trees, and in purple
autumn leaves.
A purple pansy.
Iris germanica flowers
Medicago sativa, known as alfalfa in the U.S. and lucerne in the U.K.
The Aster alpinus, or alpine aster, is native to the European mountains, including the Alps, while
a subspecies is found in Canada and the United States.
Lavender flowers.
A purple rose.
salsify
Microbiology
Purple bacteria are bacteria that are phototrophic, that is, capable of producing
energy through photosynthesis.[67]
The more distant mountains are, the lighter and more blue they are. This is called atmospheric
perspective or aerial perspective.
Sunset at Auke Bay, Alaska. Thanks to Rayleigh scattering, the mountains appear purple.
Mythology
Julius Pollux, a Greek grammarian who lived in the second century AD, attributed the
discovery of purple to the Phoenician god and guardian of the city of Tyre, Heracles.
[71]
According to his account, while walking along the shore with the nymph Tyrus, the
god's dog bit into a murex shell, causing his mouth to turn purple. The nymph
subsequently requested that Heracles create a garment for her of that same color, with
Heracles obliging her demands giving birth to Tyrian purple. [71][38]
Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States
Bishop Mercurius of Zaraisk wearing an episcopal mantle (Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox
Cathedral, New York).
The color purple is also associated with royalty in Christianity, being one of the three
traditional offices of Jesus Christ, i. e. king, although such a symbolism was assumed
from the earlier Roman association or at least also employed by the ancient Romans.
Vanity, extravagance, individualism
In Europe and America, purple is the color most associated with vanity, extravagance,
and individualism. Among the seven deadly sins, it represents pride. It is a color which
is used to attract attention.[74]
The artificial, materialism and beauty
Purple is the color most often associated with the artificial and the unconventional. It is
the major color that occurs the least frequently in nature, and was the first color to be
synthesized.[75]
Ambiguity and ambivalence
Purple is the color most associated with ambiguity. Like other colors made by combining
two primary colors, it is seen as uncertain and equivocal. [76]
Mourning
In Britain, purple is sometimes associated with mourning. In Victorian times, close
relatives wore black for the first year following a death ("deep mourning"), and then
replaced it with purple or dark green trimmed with black. This is rarely practised today. [77]
In Thailand, widows in mourning wear the color purple. Purple is also associated
with Saturday on the Thai solar calendar.
Han purple and Han blue were synthetic colors made by artisans in China during the Han
dynasty (206 BC to 220 AD) or even earlier.
Emperor Komyo of Japan. (1322–1380). Purple was the color of the aristocracy in Japan and
China.
Cultures of Europe
Ancient Rome
Purple represented the height of Roman virtue and cultural values.[73]
Medieval Europe
Purple was a central motif in the career of the musician Prince. His 1984 film and album Purple Rain is one of
his best-known works. The title track is Prince's signature song and was nearly always played in concert.
Prince encouraged his fans to wear purple to his concerts. [87][88]
Business
The British chocolate company Cadbury chose purple as it was Queen Victoria's
favourite color.[92] The company trademarked the color purple for chocolates with
registrations in 1995[93] and 2004.[94] However, the validity of these trademarks is the
matter of an ongoing legal dispute following objections by Nestlé.[95]
In flags
Purple or violet appear in the flags of only two modern sovereign nations, and are
merely ancillary colors in both cases. The Flag of Dominica features a sisserou
parrot, a national symbol, while the Flag of Nicaragua displays a rainbow in the
center, as part of the coat of arms of Nicaragua.
The lower band of the flag of the second Spanish republic (1931–39) was colored a
tone of purple, to represent the common people as opposed to the red of the
Spanish monarchy, unlike other nations of Europe where purple represented royalty
and red represented the common people.[96]
In Japan, the prefecture of Tokyo's flag is purple, as is the flag of Ichikawa and other
Japanese municipalities.
Porpora, or purpure, a shade of purple, was added late to the list of colors of
European heraldry. A purple lion was the symbol of the old Spanish Kingdom of
León (910–1230), and it later appeared on the flag of Spain, when the Kingdom of
Castile and Kingdom of León merged.
Flag of Nicaragua, although at this size the purple band of the rainbow is nearly
indistinguishable.
Flag of the second Spanish republic (1931–39), known in Spanish as la tricolor, still widely used
by left-wing political organizations.
See also
Byzantium (color)
Carmine (color)
Cerise (color)
Lavender (color)
List of colors
Orchid (color)
Purple (cipher machine)
Purple Francis
Purple Mark
Raspberry (color)
Rose (color)
Ruby (color)
Shades of magenta
Shades of purple
Ultramarine
Violet (color)
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