
Understanding Art Through the History of Pigments
Yale University Press Podcast
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Ultramarine: A Miracle of a Color
It was a little bit of both. It was just a question of starting with the art versus starting with the stories of the pigments. And so it is quite amazing how the subjects that deserved such a pigment are themselves in a certain sense, like the pigment,. Like the Virgin Mary, who had to watch her son die, but somehow has come out more majestic on the other side.
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