CERULEAN: shadow box

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

shadow box

For the three muses challenge this week: shadow box.

"Resting flags", 20 x 20 cm.

5 comments:

indybev said...: I like your "resting flags" very much. Well done!; November 9, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Meggymay said...: Its a super box for the flags.; November 9, 2017 at 3:03 PM
peggy gatto said...: How very clever!; November 10, 2017 at 1:03 AM
Michele said...: marvelous! xo; November 10, 2017 at 7:27 AM
Gillena Cox said...: Very Interesting

much love....; November 10, 2017 at 3:44 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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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

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