Very Interesting People 1 - Jean Baptiste Guimet

Welcome back to Archeobaleni, greeting you with a new coloumn, exploring the personalities whose contributions to cultural heritage and archeometry was essential.

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To learn more:

Philip Ball, Bright Earth: Art and the invention of Color, University of Chicago Press, 2003.

The king of blues - with Rollingems

Ladies and Gentlemen,

welcome to the realm of the king of blues!

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To learn more: 
http://www.rollingems.com/index.php/beni-culturali/pigmenti-1/205-the-king-of-blues-lapis-lazuli-or-ultramarine-blue-ita

Discovering Sodalite-group blue minerals.

Enjoy your trip into the magic world of blue-coloured rocks!

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To learn more:

Caggiani M.C., Valotteau C., Colomban Ph., “Inside the glassmaker technology: search of Raman criteria to discriminate between Emile Gallé and Philippe-Joseph Brocard enamels and pigment signatures”, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 45 (6), 456-464, 2014.