My favorite color is yellow like the sunlight.
Cool! Anything interesting about the color 'yellow' in particular?
I like it because it was one of the first colors used in art.
Oh? Do you know when it was first used?
Well France has a painting of a yellow horse that is over 17,000 years old, so you can only imagine how long ago the color yellow was used.
Oh, that's neat! Did yellow have any historic significance like purple did for royalty?
in the murals in Roman villas. In the early Christian church, yellow was the color associated with the Pope and the golden keys of the Kingdom, but was also associated with Judas Iscariot and was used to mark heretics. In the 20th century, Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe were forced to wear a yellow star. In China, bright yellow was the color of the Middle Kingdom, and could be worn only by the Emperor and his household; special guests were welcomed on a yellow carpet.
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as egg yolks, buttercups, and bananas. They absorb light energy and protect plants from photodamage. Sunlight has a slight yellowish hue when sun is near a horizon, due to atmosphere scattering shorter wavelengths (green, blue, and violet).
Because it was widely available, yellow ochre pigment was one of the first colors used in art; the Lascaux cave in France has a painting of a yellow horse 17,000 years old. Ochre and orpiment pigments were used to represent gold and skin color in Egyptian tombs, then