The Color of Power

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To understand how purple became the symbol of power , we only have to refer to the difficulty of getting the color . Even today, the Kremer-Pigmente house produces historical dyes and to obtain 1 gr of purple, 10,000 molluscs are needed, costing €2,000 per gram. Although in ancient times it was not an expensive mollusk, tons of it were needed to dye a robe, and not everyone could afford it.

Already, since the Old Testament, the purple color appears as the most precious color, in many cases making references to prizes that were given, allowing the lower class to wear purple. In the Roman Empire only the emperor, his wife and his heir were allowed to wear the color purple. purple-roman-emperor The difficulty of creating this dye made it exclusive and only available  background remove service to a few, which made it the color of power . Symbology that refers to the present, as we have mentioned, making it the color of luxury. The color of theology However, if there is one field in which violet is easily recognized, it is in theology . In the chord of devotion, white is the color of the divine, black of politics, and violet of theology. The only public institution where ministers wear purple is the Catholic Church.



It is the color of bishops. The ecclesiastical violet also has its beginnings in the color purple, it is the color of eternity and justice. In Alice Walker's novel “The Color Purple,” lilac wildflowers signify that God is in everything. In addition, the color violet is the color of the divine and of faith. It is the color of penance and humility . It is a very present color therefore in Holy Week. In addition, it is also present in the mass for the dead since black, the color of earthly mourning, cannot be the color of a religious ceremony.