During the Renaissance, the most prized color was ultramarine blue, which was made from precious crushed lapis lazuli and usually reserved for the blue in the Virgin Mary's mantel.
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Lita Albuquerque, a 50-year-old artist from Los Angeles, sprinkled more than two tons of ultramarine blue pigment on the yellow sands of Giza, creating a pattern of stars and circles.
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Her own paints cost dlrs 100 a bottle and come in colors that have names like superchrome yellow light, raw sienna, burnt umber, archival crimson, ultramarine blue and scarlet red.
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He built a factory for the production of artificial ultramarine blue at the Kahlberg in Wiesdorf in 1861, and called the emerging settlement " Leverkusen " after his family home in Lennep.
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The platforms have a blue trim line on a dark blue border ( ultramarine blue and cobalt blue, with replacement tiles at the north end that are ultramarine blue and navy blue ).
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The platforms have a blue trim line on a dark blue border ( ultramarine blue and cobalt blue, with replacement tiles at the north end that are ultramarine blue and navy blue ).
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Following a journey to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, van Meegeren painted " The Supper at Emmaus " using the ultramarine blues and yellows preferred by Johannes Vermeer and other Dutch Golden Age painters.
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He experimented with various colors, but eventually chose just ultramarine blue, bottle green and lemon yellow, as much for their appearance as for the spiritual mood they create in the chapel when the sun shines through them.
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This is because Enrico degli Scrovegni ordered that, because of the expense of the pigment ultramarine blue used, it should be painted on top of the already dry fresco ( secco fresco ) to preserve its brilliance.
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It is composed of crossed M1 Garand rifles with fixed bayonets silhouetted over a silver / gray Roman helmet adorned with a scarlet red horsehair festoon on a field of ultramarine blue with the attached organization motto.
