BLUE-BLOODED CREATIONS
he story of mankind’s fascination with the color blue is one that stretches across civilizations and cultures. The Egyptians created the first synthetic blue pigment for use with ceramics, statues and other traditional crafts, and went on to develop variations of blue, which further spread across the world. In the artistic world, one shade of blue was, in fact, worth its weight in gold. This was ultramarine, otherwise monikered as “true blue”. The Baroque artist Johannes Vermeer likely spent his family fortune acquiring enough ultramarine paint in order to create his renowned work Girl with a Pearl Earring, and Michelangelo’s The Entombment was supposedly unfinished because the artist could not afford to buy the pigment to complete it. Picasso’s Blue Period works
