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What is Pink, in the Art by Various Artists
A rose is pink
What is pink? a rose is pink
By a fountain’s brink.
What is red? a poppy’s red
In its barley bed …Colors, Christina Rossetti.
Pink was not a common color in the fashion of the Middle Ages. Nobles usually preferred brighter reds, such as crimson. But, it did appear in women’s fashion and religious art.
In the 13th and 14th centuries, the Christ child was sometimes portrayed dressed in pink, the color associated with the body of Christ.
During the Renaissance, pink was mainly used for the flesh color of faces and hands.
“Pink is the color of strength, a color of conviction, a color of decision making.” — Angad Bedi.
In the 18th century.
Emma, Lady Hamilton, later the mistress of Admiral Horatio Nelson.
It was painted by English painter George Romney (1782–1784).
The portrait of Sarah Moulton, “Pinkie”, by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1794).
