[decimon]

Altarpiece of the Church of Sant Pere

Caption: The altarpiece of the Church of Sant Pere contains Egyptian blue, archaeologists have found.

Credit: Patrimoni-UB.

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[decimon]

Gone blue ping.

[iceskater]

Sort of an art ping.

Have you heard of this pigment? Is there anything equivalent in use now?

[blam]

Neat.

Maya Blue

Elton John Blue

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

It would take me hours to pick a site to recommend, dealing with ancient pigments; there are so many excellent ones. Google “woad” and “egyptian blue” and have a blast. :)

[colorado tanker]

Blue Egyptians.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Well, I was going to guess that a family of artists had kept the precious pigment for hundreds of years and passed it down.

[NYer]

Catholic Ping
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[annalex]

The significance of this is that it corroborates what every student of iconography knows intuitively: that medieval iconographic tradition, — in this case, Romanesque but also of course Byzantine,— has it roots in patristic times, when memory of how Christ, His Blessed Mother and the apostles looked was alive.

[Beowulf9]

I tried to find a picture of the alter, but this one doesn’t seem to want to enlarge.

http://living.oneindia.in/cosmopolitan/cosmo-life/2010/egyptian-blue-pigment-060510.html