Minerals, as raw structural materials or pigments, play a fundamental role in archaeometry,
for the understanding of nature, structure and status of an artefact or object of interest for …

Minerals able to colour in blue (and green in combination with yellow pigments) are limited
in number and geologically. After presenting a short history of the use of cobalt as a …

The birth of Chemistry can be found in two main practices:(i) the Arts du feu (ceramic and
glass, metallurgy, ie, inorganic and solid state chemistry) and (ii) the preparation of …

Located in the heel of the Italian boot, the Salento region was home to a diverse population
between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Inhabitants spoke Latin, Greek, and various …

Many of the Raman spectra obtained from areas painted with ultramarine pigments in
illuminated manuscript leaves from the 14th century Italian manuscript the Laudario of …

As one of the most desired and expensive artists' materials throughout history, there has
long been interest in studying natural lapis lazuli. The traditional method of extracting the …

Richly decorated enamelled glass objects and fragments of different provenance and epoch
have been analysed using mobile and fixed Raman instruments: some fragments of the …

Among the four different ways (and their combinations) to colour a solid, the dispersion of a
phase, already coloured and stable in the fired/molten matrix–a pigment–is the technique …

The founding of lapis lazuli to give blue colour to glass and glazes is more and more coming
out from the most recent studies of pottery and glassware of different epochs and …

The present paper aims to explore the main aspects of the social history of ground lapis
lazuli and the pigment ultramarine 'blue'up to the end of the 13th century. Although it draws …