An innovative work that explores the history of art from the unprecedented perspective of color and its symbolic role in the various civilizations and in the different artistic seasons. Today color is the subject of particular research by contemporary artists, defined as "artists of color". Grasping the place of color in contemporary art is not an easy task: the plurality of styles does not allow to isolate poetics and strands in a society so adept at consuming poetics with goods. From the red ocher of the middle Paleolithic onwards, from this use of red dating back to 400,000 years ago by homo erectus, the color subsequently invaded the caves and shelters of the upper Paleolithic and then took the most diverse roads to express the potential of various cultures. The historical and cultural perspectives chosen by the authors are those in which color has a special meaning in relation to the history of art. This work is therefore born by taking into consideration some extra-European artistic worlds and some European and Western artistic seasons, asking different authors to be bridges with these worlds and these seasons, to illustrate the place of color in the art of that world or that season. No encyclopedic claims or panoramic completeness, only a glance capable of seeing in distant seasons and worlds what Massimo Carboni, author of the introductory essay, rightly calls "everything is color".