This image is just an example of basic scripting with obvious use of colour by Hannes Rall
Opticks - written by Isaac Newton the Physicist
Colour: Travels Through The Paint Box - Victoria Finlay
Colour history lecture
Things I found interesting from this lecture were that you'd have people hired to mix colours for you called colour men. This was way back when painting was something only the rich could afford as the colours were so difficult to produce and that Disney do colour scripting to create specific moods for each and every scene.
Some books to look at and research are:
