Ultramarine
ul-tra-ma-rēn′, adj. situated beyond the sea.—n.
the most beautiful and durable sky-blue colour, so called either from its intense blue, or from the lapis lazuli, from which it is made, being brought from Asia, beyond the sea.
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Ultramarine is a deep blue color pigment which was originally made by grinding lapis lazuli into a powder. The name comes from the Latin ultramarinus, literally "beyond the sea", because the pigment was imported into Europe from mines in Afghanistan by Italian traders during the 14th and 15th centuries.
The stone began being exported to Europe in the Middle Ages, where it was ground into a pigment known as ultramarine. Because it was so rare and difficult to get, ultramarine became the finest and most expensive colour that could be used by Renaissance artists
(Italian artists from the 13th to the 15th century).
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