Posted on 01/15/2019 4:54:41 PM PST by SJackson
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Top artist, maybe. Might suggest they were involved in the process. Of jewelry making, or dye or pigment making.
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Women use all kinds of weird things as makeup. Are these researchers really sure that these women weren’t using some kind of lip makeup that involved ground lapis lazuli?
They were drinking blue Gatorade?
I think that’s a possibility. Lapis was ground for use as a pigment.
The answer seems to be to become a scribe for some monk. I didn't realize monks had that much money.
Were blue teeth fashionable at that time and place?
I thought this going to be about Hillary and Monica.
And women were chosen as the grinders, hence the blue flecks in their teeth. Spit don't swallow!
As the Trappists make jams and jellies, maybe she was making a batch of Blue Nun.
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Fascinating.
Another example of toxic masculinity!
Lapis Lazuli would be ground fine, mixed with medium, and used to paint the blue Virgins veil. This was an artist who ingested a lot of blue pigment over a long time. Ive never heard whether its toxuc.
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Thank you. I actually READ this earlier this morning. lol
What I found just as interesting as the fact their were women scribes, is how extensive this particular tint and source was actually used. Pretty incredible history for a rock. :)
Lapis Lazuli would be ground fine, mixed with medium, and used to paint the Virgins blue veil. This was an artist who ingested a lot of blue pigment over a long time. Ive never heard whether its toxic. Manganese, cadmium are toxic.
It's well-known that nuns were very active in sacred and liturgical arts, including the making of vestments and altar cloths, illuminated manuscripts, furnishings for the altar and paintings including elaborate rood screens and painted wood carvings.
In the early Middle Ages--from the fifth century to the year 1,000 , more or less ---there were dozens of great (major) abbesses who ruled and dispensed justice, mastered both the the practical and liturgical arts, and kept learning alight.
An excellent example is St. Hilda of Whitby. According to her biographer, the Venerable Bede, "not only ordinary people but monks and kings and queens from afar streamed to her" for instruction in the arts and literature, and for advice and counsel.
Hilda was the abbess of the great double monastery at Whitby, ruling over not only her own community but a monastery of friars as well. St. Hilda emphasized learning for her friars and nuns. They studied scripture. They illuminated manuscripts. They solved mathematical riddles--for fun!
The well-documented histories of Hilda of Whiby, Hildegard of Bingen, Teresa of Avila, Bridget of Sweden and their artistic and illustrious sisters (especially my favorites, the splendid Rhineland Benedictines),is evidently news to some!
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