lapis

Ingredients

lapis lazuli

Evidence

"The dark blue from lapis is particularly effective when set off against a gold ground, and this striking combination of dark blue against gold continued to predominate throughout the fifteenth century."

Remarks

The author notes that by the mid-fourteenth century, the preferred color scheme for manuscript illumination shifted to a predominance of dark blue and gold. Lapis lazuli provided the deep blue color that contrasted with the gold grounds in rosettes and borders (p. 28).