"This gorgeous coffee table book celebrates over 2500 pigments of color that will be visual candy on any countertop in your home." –E NewsThe Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums encompasses over 2,500 of the world’s rarest pigments. Museum director Edward Forbes started the collection at the turn of the 20th century, in order to preserve the early Italian paintings he had begun to collect. Over the years, the collection grew into a