A fantastic foray into the history of painting pigments across the spectrum, divided into short, lucid descriptions of history, composition, and interesting notes. Well illustrated with artwork highlighting each pigment.

This is the book version of the wonderful video shorts on the same theme posted to the Jackson's Art account on Instagram.

This would make a great coffee table book, or for reading in brief installments. For example, I read about a few pigments daily while waiting on the kettle to boil.