Author： Searight Sarah
Publisher： Routledge Ltd
ISSN： 1477-1500
Source： Asian Affairs, Vol.44, Iss.3, 2013-11, pp. : 401-417
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Abstract
The best Lapis lazuli in the world comes from Afghanistan, from Badakhshan, where it has been mined for over 6,000 years.Merchants carried lapis to cities all over Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, where distinctive ornaments have subsequently been excavated. More recently emerged a quite different use of lapis-the grinding of the stone to produce pigment for painting (ultramarine) This technique travelled as much as the stone itself from caves in Asia through wall paintings of the early Middle Ages to the Italian Renaissance and, finally to Titian
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