Recent investigations into this shade of blue -- ultramarine blue ... status of a work's commissioner. Ultramarine was the pigment often reserved to paint the mantel of the Virgin Mary.

This involved grounding the lapis lazuli stone to powder and then kneading it with a paste of resin, beeswax and oil ... blue paint, but we do see the effect on the stone itself, and the ...

To make lapis lazuli as a pigment of ultramarine, first crush the stone into fine sand and mix it with the wax, oil, pine cone ... extract containing blue particles is completed.