From: Gordon J. Holtslander (holtsg@duke.usask.ca)
Date: 09/22/03-05:38:21 PM Z
Hi:
For an exhaustive history of pigments, their discovery and use in art try
the book:
Bright earth : art and the invention of color
by Philip Ball
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002
ISBN 0374116792
This book does say
There is a blue pigment that was derived from a crustacean found in the
mediteranean, it was difficult to produce and very expensive.
Gord
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