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Neat, but I wouldn't call that "vivid".
by mkl 2y ago
Neat, but I wouldn't call that "vivid".
- gilleain 2y agoI suspect it's a pun on the mineral name ... (Incorrectly, I assumed that the name related to 'vital' - as in 'living' - but apparently not : "It was named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1817, the year of his death, after either John Henry Vivian (1785–1855), a Welsh-Cornish politician, mine owner and mineralogist living in Truro, Cornwall, England, or after Jeffrey G. Vivian, an English mineralogist."
- AlecSchueler 2y agoThat said the name Vivian does derive from the Latin name Vivianus, which comes from the Latin word vivus, meaning "alive"
- est 2y agoIIRC there's a theory that blue paint is incredibly expensive in the past.
- gilleain 2y agoSo ultramarine blue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarine) is made from lapis lazuli which is a semi-precious stone. That was presumably quite expensive.
- QuercusMax 2y agoTIL that the name "ultramarine" is because it came from "beyond the sea" (Afghanistan) from the perspective of Rome. I always figured it was because it's such a deep blue.
- philk10 2y agoRivaled the price of gold and was used on the most important figures eg the Virgin Mary - until a reward was offered for a synthetic version - https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-a-brief-history-of-blue https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-a-brief-histor...
- giantg2 2y agoIt gets darker with increased oxidation/time. It likely was very vivid at one point.