"The blue in this painting is more special than you think"

@Ter believes that if Caravaggio had seen Miró’s "Catalan Peasant with a Guitar", he would have thought it was ‘some kind of joke’. Indeed, the idea of obtaining a colour straight out of a tube of paint when you used to have to grind a mineral and mix it with egg white or oil seems just that, a joke. But it isn’t.

Discover why blue is a much more special colour than is thought with Ter’s ever-fascinating explanations.