PLAY PODCASTS
Fun Fact Friday - Purple
Season 2 · Episode 59

Fun Fact Friday - Purple

For this fun fact Friday mini episode, I discuss the color purple. Purple has long been associated with royalty and that is largely because purple dyes have been hard to come by. The time consuming, labor and resource intensive process of producing purpl...

Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages

March 12, 20216m 25s

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (podtrac.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Show Notes

For this fun fact Friday mini episode, I discuss the color purple. Purple has long been associated with royalty and that is largely because purple dyes have been hard to come by. The time consuming, labor and resource intensive process of producing purple dyes made them very expensive and thus only people of wealth and power could afford such finery. 

As always, you can find more to learn about on the website www.whoartedpodcast.com

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices