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== Description == | == Description == | ||
| − | Blue bice is an unstandardized name generally used for synthetic copper carbonate, [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=blue | + | Blue bice is an unstandardized name generally used for synthetic copper carbonate, [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=blue%20verditer blue verditer]. Blue bice, however, has also been used to refer to the pigment produced from grinding the copper carbonate mineral [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=azurite azurite]. Blue bice was once used to refer to [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=smalt smalt]. |
== Synonyms and Related Terms == | == Synonyms and Related Terms == | ||
Revision as of 11:02, 13 June 2013
Description
Blue bice is an unstandardized name generally used for synthetic copper carbonate, blue verditer. Blue bice, however, has also been used to refer to the pigment produced from grinding the copper carbonate mineral azurite. Blue bice was once used to refer to smalt.
Synonyms and Related Terms
blue verditer; azul montaa (Esp.); bice blu (It.); Bremen blue; synthetic azurite; smalt
Comparisons
[[media:|Characteristics of Common Blue Pigments]]
Authority
- R. J. Gettens, G.L. Stout, R. J. Gettens, G.L. Stout, Painting Materials, A Short Encyclopaedia, Dover Publications, New York, 1966
- Ralph Mayer, Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)
- R.D. Harley, R.D. Harley, Artists' Pigments c. 1600-1835, Butterworth Scientific, London, 1982