ultramarine
Sign in to saveUltramarine is a deep blue pigment which was originally made by grinding lapis lazuli into a powder. Its lengthy grinding and washing process makes the natural pigment quite valuable—roughly ten times more expensive than the stone it comes from. Between the 14th and 15th centuries, it was as expensive as gold in Europe.
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- Electric Ultramarine
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- Synthetic ultramarine pigment
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- 3F00FF
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- Maerz and Paul
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- Deep blue
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- Structure
- Visual properties
- Shades and variations
- Electric
- Production
- Natural production
- Synthetic production
- History
- Antiquity and Middle Ages
- Renaissance
- 17th and 18th centuries
- 19th century (invention of synthetic ultramarine)
- Permanence
- Synthetic applications
- Terminology
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Ultramarine is a deep blue pigment which was originally made by grinding lapis lazuli into a powder. Its lengthy grinding and washing process makes the natural pigment quite valuable—roughly ten times more expensive than the stone it comes from. Between the 14th and 15th centuries, it was as expensive as gold in Europe.
The name ultramarine comes from the Latin word . The word means 'beyond the sea', as the pigment was imported by Italian traders during the 14th and 15th centuries from mines in Afghanistan. Much of the expansion of ultramarine can be attributed to Venice which historically was the port of entry for lapis lazuli in Europe.