The stone from the sky
Sacred blues of the ancient world
The birth of ultramarine
The great chemistry race
Out of the blue
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Master of The story of ultramarine
andy Ultramarine Blue
It crossed the seas and cost much more than gold, Leaving blank canvas where the stories were told.
andy During the Renaissance, ultramarine was so costly that patrons bought it directly for artists.
andy In 1437, painter Cennino Cennini documented the complex recipe to extract pure blue from lapis.
Vermeer's debt: Johannes Vermeer went heavily into debt to buy ultramarine for 'Girl with a Pearl Earring,' leaving his family broke when he passed away.
A brilliant deep blue pigment originally made by grinding the semiprecious stone lapis lazuli. Historically, artists obtained this precious pigment from lapis lazuli mined in the Badakhshan province of Afghanistan.
Which Renaissance master left 'The Entombment' unfinished in 1501 because he lacked ultramarine?
Who wrote the 1437 handbook 'Il Libro dell'Arte' detailing how to extract pure ultramarine?
At its peak value in Renaissance Europe, how did the price of ultramarine compare to gold?
Which 17th-century Dutch painter went deeply into debt partly due to his obsession with ultramarine?
What substance was used in the Renaissance extraction process to trap impurities from ground lapis?