CERULEAN: passage

Monday, October 25, 2010

passage

4 comments:

r.bohnenkamp said...: you give us back a piece of summer. thanks eric; October 26, 2010 at 12:52 AM
BLACK AND WHITE said...: Beautiful!; October 26, 2010 at 4:34 PM
CERULEAN said...: Thank you both for the nice comments.; October 28, 2010 at 10:47 AM
Bridgette Guerzon Mills said...: Love this piece. Actually I really enjoy all your work. Thank you for your recent visit to my blog and for your comment!; November 1, 2010 at 2:54 PM

About the name

Cerulean is a range of colours from deep blue, skye-blue, bright blue or azure to deep cyan. The word cerulean comes from the Latin word caerulem, which means 'sky' or 'heavens' or sometimes 'oceans'.

Besides cerulean, ultramarine (cornflower blue) plays a prominent role. This pigment is natural present in the mineral lazurite, found in the valuable lapis lazuli.

From 1100 onwards this pigment, imported from Asia (China, Afghanistan), reaches the ateliers of painters in Europe, the blue of old masters Ducio, Titiaan and Vermeer.

In Italy the colour was known as Azurro Oltramarino. Literally 'the azurite coming from beyond the seas'.

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Monday, October 25, 2010

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