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A bold new account of the lives of pre-modern painters.

The Anatomy of Riches tells the story of one family's long rise from rags to riches, and their rapid reversal of fortune. It focuses on the life of Sir Robert Paston, who experienced the family's fall from grace at a time of momentous change, the beginning of the modern world.

Part material history, part cultural inquiry, Red traces the origins, applications and influences of the colour red.