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Aug.15.2012
The Blue That Transmutes Fool's Gold
  Lazurite glinting with pyrite and veins of calcite 'A fragment of the starry firmament’. Pliny the Elder     The Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, whose ceiling Giotto starred with gold, a palace for his frescoes. His bluepigment was of ground lapis lazuli mixed with oil and resin...