CERULEAN: inside the landscape

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

inside the landscape

4 comments:

Lisa Graham said...: Totally Fall and perfect for October 31 I would say. What a great piece...better than candy corn.; October 31, 2012 at 4:23 PM
SIGrid said...: Your little collage is GREAT,
I love it.; November 1, 2012 at 11:59 AM
LE CHEMIN DES GRANDS JARDINS said...: Très belle création dans la couleur du temps.

Roger; November 2, 2012 at 12:40 PM
CERULEAN said...: Thank you for the nice comments!; November 8, 2012 at 12:16 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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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

inside the landscape

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