[DOC] [TLE] Who Knew There Was so Much to Blue? - Northwestern Now [PAR] Nov 5, 2014 ... Blue's story begins with lapis lazuli, a semiprecious stone of intense blue ... The 
first is that blue was the first man-made pigment -- the first pigment ever 
engineered. ... To make ultramarine, Venetians crushed the lapis lazuli stone, 
which is ... to a once impractical process of creating a synthetic blue (glass). [DOC] [TLE] Lapis Lazuli pigments - Master Pigments [PAR] lapis lazuli pigment, genuine lapis, genuine ultramarine. ... Lapis Lazuli pigment (
Lazurite, Natural Ultramarine, Azzurro Oltramarino, Fra Angelico blue pigment, 
Lapis Lazuli genuine, Ultramarine ash) ... Cennini wrote to crush the rocks in 
bronze mortar and then to do the powder on ... This is literally a 'hand made' 
pigment. [DOC] [TLE] Vermeer's Palette: Natural Ultramarine - Essential Vermeer [PAR] ... is made of the powder of the crushed semi-precious stone lapis lazuli which, 
after ... Genuine ultramarine made of lapis lazuli is no longer produced and has ... 
Most extraordinary, however is that the costly mineral blue pigment was used to 
... Once dry, Vermeer superimposed the pale shades of genuine ultramarine to... [DOC] [TLE] The Colour Blue in Antiquity | Owlcation [PAR] Oct 7, 2016 ... The Egyptians also used crushed lapis lazuli as eye makeup. ... to use really 
expensive blue pigment made from crushed gemstones by inventing ..... of these 
ancient temples as once it was in all its former, multi-colored glory? [DOC] [TLE] Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vermeer's Palette [PAR] The only significant difference was his extensive use of lapis lazuli instead of ... 
kind of animal skin glue) was used bind certain blue pigments since even the 
slight, ... Once he became sufficiently proficient in this task he had to make the 
paints ... of the finest grade of the costly ultramarine (crushed natural lapis lazuli) 
instead... [DOC] [TLE] The Geography of Colorants | Blue Colorants | Online Exhibits ... [PAR] Plants containing the blue pigment found in the indigo species grow all over the 
... Once discovered by European explorers, demand for indigo spread rapidly. ... 
Made by a laborious process of crushing the semi precious stone lapis lazuli, it is
... [DOC] [TLE] Pigment made from Lapis Lazuli  Methvin Fine Art [PAR] Mar 14, 2013 ... The other secret that surrounds this pigment is this: How do you crush the stone 
and keep the best blue, while removing the imperfections? [DOC] [TLE] Lapis lazuli - Wikipedia [PAR] Lapis lazuli or lapis for short, is a deep blue semi-precious stone prized since 
antiquity for its .... Its usage as a pigment in oil paint largely ended in the early 
19th century when a chemically identical synthetic variety became available. ... 
Lapis lazuli also made its way across the Mediterranean to ancient Egypt, where 
it was a... [DOC] [TLE] Ultramarine By Paul Robinson Lapis lazuli, as a semi-precious ... [PAR] The pigment Ultramarine Blue is a complex polysuphide of sodium alumino-
silicate ... The successful manufacture of pigment from lapis lazuli, must extract 
the lazurite ... Once the rock is selected, the method described by Cennini is the 
only effective way ... The crushed rock is then finely ground with water, on a mill 
or pot. [DOC] [TLE] Pigments and their Chemical and Artistic Properties - JcSparks.com [PAR] Making the Pigment: Roots of the madder plant are dried, crushed, hulled, boiled 
in weak ... The extracted dye is made into a pigment by dissolving the dye in hot 
alum ..... and what was once a beautiful green or orange turns back into blue or 
red. ..... Azurite sometimes looks a little like lapis lazuli, and the two were often... [DOC] [TLE] Bodleian Library | Exploring Ultramarine [PAR] Image of lapis lazuli crystals being crushed ... During the grinding process the 
distinctive odour of sulphur was produced by the breaking down of the lazurite 
particles. ... The purified blue pigment extracted from lapis lazuli is essentially the 
mineral ... Once a coarse powder was obtained with a granite pestle and mortar... [DOC] [TLE] Please Help! I cant pulverise Lapis Lazuli! [

Question: This blue pigment was once made from crushed lapis lazuli
Answer: ultramarine