Colors are still determinant criteria in our society. They indicate one's mind, taste or even social category. In fact, given both the cultures and the countries, they embody diverse meanings. Blue has played and still plays an important role in our society. As one of the three primary colors, it is a major element of painting and art in general. Its history is abundant and astonishing. Blue is the favorite color of the Occident considering divers social class, religions and cultures. Blue became a magic word, which softens the spirits and invites you to dream.

The history of the color Blue is very absorbing due to both its late beginning and its difficulty to master though it was very present in the nature (sky, sea, some flowers and animals). Some early civilizations did not have a name for the color blue but for an association of colors, which was including the color blue, that emphasizes the modest place blue took during the first centuries in most of the civilizations. For instance, numbers of philologers wonders if the Greek and the Romans could see the color blue because they did not have a word for it, they did not qualify the sea or the sky as blue but as an association of other colors. Even Homeric poems did not mention the color blue Besides the sky was said to be white, black or red and furthermore the sea was believed to be green (it is a very new fact to believe that the sea is blue). Effectively the three primary colors in the ancient society were white, red and black (That could explain the late interest for the other color like blue). Reflecting upon the place of color in our society, John Cage in "Colour and culture" gave the example of Berlin and Kay who observed how culture and cognition were " critical factors in the evolution of color categories salience". According to a survey of ninety-eight spoken languages or dialects, Berlin and Kay suggested a model for the universal development of color-vocabularies that disclosed a seven-stage evolution. The first stage consisted of black and white, during the second stage red would be adjoined, the third stage green or yellow would be added and vice versa for the fourth stage, the fifth was blue, the sixth was brown and the seventh stage was one of the other colors. As we can see Blue did not have the priority in the color arising.

The rising of blue during the twelfth and the thirteenth century does express itself not only with art and image but also with its symbolic representation. The whole social life was affected by these changes and surprisingly enough its rise could even be calculated thanks to the heraldic armories, which emerged in Europe at the time. For instance, M. Pastoureau in his Heraldic Treaty says that only 5 per cent of the armories contained blue in 1200 but this number grew to 25 per cent before1300 and 30 before 1400.This impressive rise mirrors how fast blue became trendy and the synonym of values. French armories adopted the blue very early. The sight of an armory was supposed to convey value such as respect, faith, freedom or even royalty given the fact that the French king had a blue armory (It was a gold Lily flower on blue background). From the thirteenth century on the progress realized toward the blue tinge creates new sh

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