What makes the Lapis Lazuli so meaningful? The Lapis Lazuli is a special blue metamorphic rock that has been used for many healing purposes. Its shiny vibrant color makes it great for jewelry and ...

Lapis lazuli is a vividly blue rock, sometimes with streaks of gold, that has been known for millennia for its eye-popping colour and use as a semi-precious gemstone. It gets its colour from the ...

Medievalists may have to reconsider long-held assumptions about who, exactly, painted all those gorgeous illuminated manuscripts. The intricate role of the scribe has been popularly attributed to ...

What Anita Radini noticed under the microscope was the blue—a brilliant blue that seemed so unnatural, so out of place in the 1,000-year-old dental tartar she was gently dissolving in weak acid. It ...

Defined by a deep, ultramarine hue, lapis lazuli is one of the world’s oldest and most storied jewellery materials. Unusually, it’s not a single mineral, but a rock composed of lazurite – responsible ...

I've got a serious thing for cobalt-color lapis lazuli baubles, and I can't imagine anything more chic for your wedding day jewelry look. This Elsa Peretti for Tiffany & Co. necklace is my definition ...

Over the past two decades, exhibits like Gods in Color and Chroma have popularized the idea that the ancient world was awash in color. But what do we really know about how ancient peoples understood ...

Upon entering Kremer Pigments on 29th Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, visitors were greeted by bags and bottles of color: lapis lazuli, vermillion, malachite, a wide variety of ochres and iron ...

Today, every color imaginable is at your fingertips. You can peruse paint swatches at hardware stores, flip through Pantone books, and fuss with the color finder that comes with most computer programs ...

"She really loves the color lapis and its significance in art," says celebrity artist Rachel Goodwin. By Lesley McKenzie If there was anyone who fit the description of a Renaissance woman at the ...