{"id":746460,"date":"2026-08-22T19:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746460\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T19:24:13","slug":"ruth-leon-recommends-the-story-of-ultramarine-from-the-silk-road-to-renoir-the-chemistry-of-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746460\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Leon recommends&#8230; The Story of Ultramarine from the Silk Road to Renoir: The Chemistry of Colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>norman lebrecht<\/p>\n<p>August 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p>How did ultramarine go from being more expensive than gold to one of the cheapest pigments for artists? Follow the journey of this vibrant blue colour, ultramarine, one of the most celebrated and sought-after pigments in art.<\/p>\n<p>Joanna Russell\u00a0from National Gallery\u2019s Scientific Department looks at the use of this blue in\u00a0\u2018The Wilton Diptych\u2018 and\u00a0Renoir\u2019s \u2018Umbrellas\u2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Chemistry of Colour\u00a0series explores some of the weird and wonderful ways pigments were historically produced, and how we can identify them today.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff00ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/Ruthleon.substack.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"norman lebrecht August 22, 2026 How did ultramarine go from being more expensive than gold to one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,246602,1120,96,56,246601,54,55],"class_list":["post-746460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-chemistry-of-colour","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-uktramarine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}