CERULEAN: good fences, good neighbours

Sunday, April 3, 2011

good fences, good neighbours

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Debu Barve said...: wow!; April 4, 2011 at 6:33 PM
Kelly M. said...: like that sense of containment, the dark lines confining the light area; April 5, 2011 at 6:54 PM
CERULEAN said...: Thanks, Debu and Kelly.; April 12, 2011 at 1:06 AM

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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