1. ultramarine - Noun
2. ultramarine - Adjective
3. ultramarine - Adjective Satellite
Situated or being beyond the sea.
A blue pigment formerly obtained by powdering lapis lazuli, but now produced in large quantities by fusing together silica, alumina, soda, and sulphur, thus forming a glass, colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA comparable but even more remarkable, yet effectual, use of natural ultramarine is in The Girl with a Wineglass. Source: Internet
Even after Vermeer’s supposed financial breakdown following the so-called rampjaar (year of disaster) in 1672, he continued to employ natural ultramarine generously, such as in Lady Seated at a Virginal. Source: Internet
French Blue, yet another historic name for ultramarine, was adopted by the textile and apparel industry as a color name in the 1990s, and was applied to a shade of blue that has nothing in common with the historic pigment ultramarine. Source: Internet
He also used layers of finely ground or coarsely ground ultramarine, which gave subtle variations to the blue. Source: Internet
He demonstrated that placing complementary colours, such as blue and yellow-orange or ultramarine and yellow, next to each other heightened the intensity of each colour "to the apogee of their tonality." Source: Internet
He mixed mostly traditional colors to make the pink and crimson; synthetic ultramarine, cerulean blue, and titanium white, but he also used two new organic reds, Naphtol and Lithol. Source: Internet