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Blue Pigments: 5000 Years of Art and Industry

Blue Pigments: 5000 Years of Art and Industry

Delamare, François

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ColorConservation & PreservationGeneral Art

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ISBN10: 1904982379
ISBN13: 9781904982371
Publisher: Archetype Publications
Published: May 16 2013
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

In the natural world, blue rocks from which objects can be fashioned are rare - a few marbles, lapis-lazuli and related rocks, and minerals containing copper. However those which, once ground, can be used as pigments are exceptional. Only lapis-lazuli and azurite come to mind. The long absence of blues from the palettes of our distant ancestors is therefore easy to explain as is the fact that blue pigments have always been an expensive commodity which became the objects of a very lucrative trade, spanning continents and oceans.

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